Fayl Tales
Behind every startup success story is a trail of mistakes, pivots, broken plans and brilliant comebacks.
Fayl Tales is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, investors and early employees share the real side of building something new - the failures that shaped them, the lessons they learned the hard way, and the resilience it takes to keep going.
Hosted by Loveth, each episode dives into the raw, funny and honest moments most business stories leave out - so you can learn faster, fail smarter, and feel less alone on your own journey.
Follow the show for weekly conversations that prove: failure isn’t the end, it’s part of the story.
Fayl Tales
sought funding, got acquired ~ Ben Cull
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Hey Crew! Ben Cull didn't set out to sell his company. He went to market for a $5 million funding round and came back with an acquisition offer from Fiserv at double what he thought the business was worth.
Eight years. Two developers who hated selling. 2,500 merchants. One napkin sketch in a Sheffield pub. No hype. Just acquired.
We get into what the acquisition process actually looks like from the inside, what developers consistently get wrong when they become founders, and what it feels like when the deal finally closes after six months of daily emotional whiplash.
We get into 👇:
★ How a $5M funding round became an unexpected acquisition
★ Building Pinch from a napkin sketch to 2,500 merchants
★ The legal clause that nearly blew up the whole deal
★ Two developers who hated sales and how they fixed it
★ What developers get wrong when they become founders
★ Life inside a corporate after eight years of full autonomy
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