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Millennial Masters
Conversations with founders and leaders about the decisions shaping modern businesses
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Millennial MastersThe hard work starts after the first sale 💧 Eric Kurbanov
Getting the first customers proves that somebody wants what you’re selling. Eric Kurbanov found the harder problem came next: making a physical-product…
Millennial MastersThe Exit Files 🚪 The Long Way Out
Building towards an exit can make it feel like the finish line. The founders in The Exit Files describe what happens when the money arrives and the business is…
Millennial MastersThe buyer in your head isn't your market 🎯 Ayse Guvencer
Being close to a problem can make you dangerously confident about the buyer. Ayse Guvencer calls this the domain expert trap: lived pain can narrow how you see…
Millennial MastersThe race to prove which space startups are real 🚀 Philip Hover-Smoot
Space startups can raise hundreds of millions before their technology ever flies. Philip Hover-Smoot thinks that can distort what investors see as real…
Millennial MastersYou can’t run a business you don’t understand 📊 Lauren Pearl
You can hand finance to someone else, but you still need to understand what the numbers are saying. Otherwise, you can easily make big decisions without seeing…
Millennial MastersBuild less before you know more 🧪 Sophia Matveeva
You can build a tech company without becoming a developer, as long as you understand enough to work properly with the people building it. Sophia Matveeva…
Millennial MastersAI can build it. But should you? 🤖 Konstantin Klyagin
Konstantin Klyagin has spent more than two decades building software for other companies, and lately he’s also been fixing more of what AI helps people build…
Millennial MastersSuccess can break the business too ☕ Zain Peer
Getting more orders sounds like the answer until the business cannot keep up. Zain Peer found that out when London Nootropics appeared on Dragons’ Den, the UK…
Millennial MastersEvery tiny decision is costing you 🔋 Barry Cryan
Tiny decisions rarely feel expensive in the moment. One more email, one quick question from the team, one interruption you deal with before getting back to the…
Millennial MastersAI built the product. Investors still said no 💸 Vinnie Lauria
Building a startup has never been easier. Convincing someone to invest in it is a different problem. Vinnie Lauria has spent more than 15 years on the other…
Millennial MastersBuild like the buyer is already watching 👀 Luke Tobin
Luke Tobin built Digital Ethos from a startup into an international agency before selling the business in 2022. By the time the offer arrived, the real work…
Millennial MastersThe video isn’t your real problem 🎬 Dustin Schultz
Spending more on a video won't make your business easier to understand. That's the mistake Dustin Schultz sees all the time. Companies decide they need a…
Millennial MastersThe shortcut always costs more 🧼 Kate Assaraf
Kate Assaraf built Dip to seven figures while turning down some of the growth channels most founders chase. She does not sell on Amazon, and she has not relied…
Millennial MastersRevenue can hide a broken business 📉 Nate Littlewood
Nate Littlewood has seen both sides of business growth. He started out in finance, then went on to bootstrap a seven-figure consumer brand, where the theory of…
Millennial MastersRelevance means presence 🌱 Hugo Pereira
Hugo Pereira thinks a lot of people are struggling with a version of work that no longer feels stable. He has spent the last decade moving through startups…
Millennial MastersWhy builders make bad entrepreneurs 🧱 Matt Watson
Matt Watson has spent years building software companies, including Full Scale, where he helps businesses hire and manage software development teams. He is also…
Millennial MastersDon’t hire helpers, hire owners 👑 Gavin Bell
Gavin Bell built and sold a paid media agency by the age of 30. From the start, he wanted the business to become sellable, which forced a different kind of…
Millennial MastersInvestors don’t fund ideas 💸 James Church
James Church sees what most founders miss about raising money. He works closely with companies going through the process, and the pattern is consistent…
Millennial MastersHire your army, don’t rent mercenaries ⚔️ Yannik Schrade
Yannik Schrade thinks a lot of founders are too casual about what they outsource. He is the founder of Arcium, building privacy infrastructure at a time when…
Millennial MastersA good business can still trap you 🪤 Melissa Kwan
Melissa Kwan has spent years building, selling, and starting again. By the time she launched eWebinar, she had a much clearer idea of what she wanted this time…
Millennial MastersAI doesn’t fix a messy business ⚙️ Ben Tasker
AI can be useful long before a business is ready to use it well. Ben Tasker sees what happens when companies buy the tools first and leave the harder work…
Millennial MastersProving the sceptics wrong 🌙 Michelle Bell
Michelle Bell did not stumble into this idea by accident. Before founding Cosmic Universe, she worked in journalism and SEO, watching in real time what people…
Millennial MastersWhy working harder stops working 🔁 Damon Flowers
Damon Flowers has spent more than 20 years building and scaling companies across eCommerce, SaaS, and coaching. He is a four-time CEO with two eight-figure…
Millennial MastersYour business still needs your voice 📣 Jess Jensen
Jess Jensen has spent more than 20 years working across brands including Nestlé, Adidas, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, right as digital marketing and social media…
Millennial MastersThe ego trap behind your £10 tasks 🪤 Gary Das
Gary Das built a seven-figure mortgage business with a team of 15. It still depended on him far more than it should have. Deals, decisions, and day-to-day…
Millennial MastersIf your brand needs you, it’s broken 🔨 Joy Zarine
Joy Zarine is a brand strategist who works with founders whose businesses have traction but still lean too heavily on them. She sees the same pattern again and…
Millennial MastersYour network is worth more than money 🤝 David Homan
If you’ve ever raised capital, built partnerships, or tried to grow through referrals, you already know the pitch deck is not the whole story. David Homan has…
Millennial MastersThe true cost of scaling 🧱 Joshua Dziabiak
Joshua Dziabiak is the founder and CEO of Perigon. He started building businesses at 14 on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, teaching himself web design and…
Millennial MastersI replaced my team with AI to survive 🛠️ Anjeanette Carter
Anjeanette Carter has built and lost more than one career. She started as an actor, moved into YouTube, then into writing, building serious income online…
Millennial MastersHow to negotiate your next promotion 💸 Yota Trom
Yota Trom is an executive coach and promotion strategist who helps founders, leaders, and high performers ask for more, position their value properly, and stop…
Millennial MastersAI can build your idea, but it can’t sell it (yet) 🎯 Simon Jenner
Simon Jenner is the co-founder of Million Labs. He has spent the last two decades building, breaking, and rebuilding startups, from selling his first business…
Millennial MastersBe the CEO of your own health 🧬 Anmol Kapoor
Dr Anmol Kapoor is a cardiologist, founder, and investor focused on helping people take control of their health earlier, with better data, clearer signals, and…
Millennial MastersBuilding in a broken industry ⚖️ Nick Holzherr
Nick Holzherr has already built and exited once, then chose to start again. After appearing on The Apprentice in 2012, he built Whisk, a food AI company later…
Millennial MastersSpeed beats perfect in the AI race ⏱️ Josh Payne
Josh Payne is the founder and CEO of Coframe. He never took a traditional route. Straight out of Stanford, he went into building, turning a pandemic project…
Millennial MastersBuild a lean business with AI agents 🤖 Carly Meyers
Carly Meyers has one of those stories that sounds unlikely until you hear it properly. She started on London’s West End, performing in shows like Wicked and…
Millennial MastersThe future of SEO in the AI era 🔎 Harry Sanders
Harry Sanders did not start with a network, a safety net, or much room to get things wrong. At 17, he was sleeping under a bridge in Melbourne with a backpack…
Millennial MastersBefore you can have, you must become 🐦🔥 James Fleming
James Fleming had everything you’re meant to want: a senior exec role in oil and gas, the house in Dubai, the pool, the salary, the status. But he realised he…
Millennial MastersThe office never died, expectations changed 🔁 | Joe Averill
Most people complain about the office, but Joe Averill built a business by rethinking it. He launched Level in the middle of a so-called office apocalypse: no…
Millennial MastersLess screen time, more lifetime 📍 | Lara Varjabedian
People talk about connection, but this week’s Millennial Master builds it. Lara Varjabedian is the founder of UBQT, a platform reconnecting people in real…
Millennial MastersAlways free 💸 Buy time, not things | Jason Graystone
Most people chase money. Jason Graystone chases freedom. He’s not your typical wealth guru. Jason quit a safe career when his first child was born, blew £40k…
Millennial MastersWhen growth hurts 📈 Lessons from scaling to exit | Simon Penson
Simon Penson went from journalist to exited entrepreneur, building one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital agencies and selling it in a £20m deal to one of the…
Millennial MastersThe cost of confidence: Why ambition isn’t a dirty word 🌱 | Lauren Currie
Confidence isn’t free. As Lauren Currie puts it, “as your confidence increases, you will lose people.” She’s built Upfront into a global movement helping…
Millennial MastersThe culture rules that survive hypergrowth 🏗️ | Petr Kozyakov
Petr Kozyakov didn’t set out to build a crypto company. He set out to solve a problem. After struggling to make a simple cross-border payment, he realised the…
Millennial MastersHow to survive crypto’s 24/7 grind 🧯 | Kevin de Patoul
Kevin de Patoul walked away from a secure consulting career to build Keyrock, a digital asset firm that’s now raised over $80 million and employs nearly 200…
Millennial MastersFocus on the fun stuff & the art of delegation ⏳ | Emma Mills
This week’s Millennial Master is Emma Mills, founder of MiPA. Emma started out answering calls and managing inboxes. Seventeen years later, she built MiPA into…
Millennial MastersBreak the rules, build your brand 🚀 | Brad Mac
This week’s Millennial Master is Brad Mac, co-founder of Unreasonable. Most brands are burning cash on lazy ads and chasing the wrong metrics. Bradley McDonald…
Millennial MastersPirate moves, bold bets & stubborn scaling 🏴☠️ | Gus van Rijckevorsel
Augustin ‘Gus’ van Rijckevorsel has built his career on bold bets and stubborn ambition. By his 30s, he’d launched seven companies: some collapsed in…
Millennial MastersThe cost of saying no: Slow growth, real freedom 🙅♀️ | Jordan Stachini
This week’s Millennial Master is Jordan Stachini, Founder of Co & Co. Jordan never planned to be an agency boss. She went from flying around the world in…
Millennial MastersThe sport of entrepreneurship & the business of health 🏃♂️ | Andrew Steele
Andrew Steele is the founder who went from Olympic medal sprints to building startups with nothing but a risk appetite, relentless honesty, and a knack for…
Millennial MastersObsession, burnout, and work/life integration 🔄 | Tyler Dunagin
Tyler Dunagin never set out to become “the bathtub guy,” but that’s what happens when you turn burnout into a platform business and outpace almost everyone…
Millennial MastersThe productivity trap killing your focus 🧠 | Archie Mackintosh
This week’s Millennial Master is Archie Mackintosh, founder and coach at TruProductive. Archie doesn’t look like your typical productivity guru, and he’s not…
Millennial MastersHow to be a confident presenter 🗣️ | Andrea Pacini
Every founder knows the pain: killer idea, flat pitch. The harsh truth? Most pitches fail not because of the product, but because the story gets lost in…
Millennial MastersAI is killing mediocrity 🤖 | Oliver Yonchev
This week’s Millennial Master is Oliver Yonchev, founder of cocreatd. What does it take to break out of low-aspiration roots, ride the startup rollercoaster…
Millennial MastersBuilding fusion to fight cancer ⚛️ | Tom Wallace-Smith
Tom Wallace-Smith never planned on becoming a deep tech founder. He started out in nuclear engineering, working on the technology that powers Britain’s…
Millennial MastersGrowth is easy, keeping your culture isn’t ☕ | Lydia Snape
Ask any Millennial Master what really matters as you grow, and most will say the same thing: scale means nothing if you lose your soul. This week, I’m joined…
Millennial MastersThe business case for building a stronger body 💪🏻 | Tom Hutchinson-Smith
Ask any Millennial Master how they stay sharp, and nearly all of them mention some version of the same thing: movement. Whether it’s morning runs, strength…
Millennial MastersWhy personal brand is your #1 sales strategy 🎙️ | Freddie Pullen
What happens when you quit a cushy job, sell your house, and move to Dubai with zero contacts? Freddie Pullen did just that and built The Healthy Entrepreneur…
Millennial MastersFarming is entrepreneurship at its most extreme 🚜 | Meagan Kaiser
I met Meagan Kaiser at Sustainability Week in London back in March, where she spoke about global trade, soy innovation, and the future of sustainable…
Millennial MastersStartup lessons from the sauce aisle 🥄 | Liam White
The healthy eating revolution is here, and Liam White is on the frontlines. The ex-banker turned co-founder of Dr Will's is taking on Big Food with a simple…
Millennial MastersHow to build global teams without the bloat ✂️ | Noel Andrews
Noel Andrews is the CEO of JobRack, a niche job board he spotted in a forum and turned into a global hiring service helping founders recruit top talent from…