The Founder
The Founder is a show that features world-class entrepreneurs and their early stories of ingenuity, struggle and perseverance to get their companies off the ground. Kallaway goes in-depth with founders in straight talk, uncensored conversations to understand their thoughts, feelings and actions behind the big decisions that influenced the direction of their startup. At the end of each episode, founders share their 1-2 favorite ideas for other businesses they wish existed and we riff on how they'd bring them to market.Think My First Million meets Joe Rogan meets How I Built This.
The Founder
55. Kendrick Nguyen | Republic (democratizing startup investing)
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Kallaway / Kendrick Nguyen
Kendrick Nguyen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Republic.
During the episode, we break down:
- The origin story for building Republic and what makes it different from other crowdfunding platforms
- How the team thinks about building products for the next wave of Millennial and Gen Z investors
- The Republic platform product mix including access to private companies, crypto projects, real estate deals, video games and more
- Republic’s autopilot project which acts as a pseudo robo-advisor for private deals on their platform
- The biggest trends in the investment space and how VCs, solo capitalists and micro-investors will all have a seat at the table in the future
- Republic’s process for analyzing deals and how they decide which companies are allowed to raise on their platform
- The power of crypto and how it enables the democratization of investing across the world
- The token economy and how Republic’s note token will drive their business in the future
- Lessons learned working as an understudy of Naval Ravikant
- And much more
Tune in to hear Kendrick’s incredible story!
And remember, at the end of the episode, we asked Kendrick to brainstorm other business ideas that he would chase if Republic was gone tomorrow. Our brainstorm covered happiness and building an Equinox type of fitness for improving mental health.
Watch this episode on YouTube here.
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