#13 - Dan Purvis: Startup Success Built on Faith

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Hosted by Giovanni Lauricella, in this episode we interview Dan Purvis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Velentium Medical. Dan shares his story of how his faith helped him throughout his entrepreneurial journey. Giovanni and Jason explore servant leadership, what it takes to found a company, raising institutional money, writing books, and more.

You can learn more about Velentium Medical and their medical device design and manufacturing services at www.velentiummedical.com

This episode is sponsored by Zapyrus, a business development and business intelligence software company based out of Toronto, Canada. To learn more about Zapyrus and the services they offer visit welcome.zapyrus.com

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:31 Faith and Business
• 9:02 Servant Leadership
• 23:42 The Power of Faith
• 34:59 Who is Dan Purvis?
• 53:43 The Velentium Story
• 1:04:34 What It Takes to Found a Company
• 1:15:07 Living in Texas
• 1:27:00 Engineer to Entrepreneur
• 1:39:59 Raising Institutional Money
• 1:47:56 Scaling Velentium
• 1:56:22 The Houston MedTech Ecosystem
• 2:02:15 Velentium's Scope and Business Development Strategy
• 2:10:35 The Private Equity Story
• 2:15:50 Navigating Institutional Money in MedTech
• 2:23:36 Writing "28 Days to Save the World"
• 2:31:13 Leadership Philosophy
• 2:35:10 The Best Job in the World