The Midnight Founders Podcast

This weeks episode is a conversation with Scott Porter who is the founder and CEO of San Diablo Churros. Scott shared some amazing stories about how to do more for your customers than just provide a product. He is all about creating the best customer experience and brand experience. He shared great insights about how to empower employees to help build the brand for your company. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Scott. 

Bubba took us on a deep dive of how his VC firm is focused on helping companies learn how to work with influencers. It was a fascinating conversation and bubba shared so many great insights for startups. We hope you enjoy our conversation with bubba 

We had a great conversation with Mark Sullivan from ERC Specialists. They built ERC specialists quickly to respond to a big gap in the market and have helped 65,000 businesses around the country get access to federal tax credits. Mark explained that there are 7,000,000 businesses around the country that potentially qualify for these credits and only around 1,000,000 have currently applied. He also gave us a sneak peak of what the next phase of the company looks like as the ERC credits wind down. Mark had great advice for founders, we hope you enjoy this episode!!!!

we had a great conversation with Wade Millward who is the founder and CEO of Rikor. We talked about his transition from Intrapreneurship to Entrepreneurship. He shared advice from tough lessons learned along the way and had some great advice for becoming a better leader.  

This weeks episode is a conversation with Nate Sanders who is the founder of Artifact. they are using AI to help retail and SAAS companies get a better understanding of what their customers are saying. we talked about the importance of picking good co-founders, and also how critical it is to have mentors when building a company. Nate shared a little about the current trends in AI and what is on the horizon for the industry. This was a fun one, we hope you enjoy it. 

This weeks episode is a great conversation with Hunter Sebresos from Bacon. they are revolutionizing the temporary staffing industry. this project is close to his heart because he grew up in a single parent household and saw the value of flexible work options. He has built a great team and is helping hundreds of thousands of temporary workers around the country. We hope you enjoy our discussion with Hunter. 

This week's episode is a conversation with Amy Rees Anderson. She shared her incredible journey from being a single mom trying to make ends meet to selling her company for over 370 million. This episode is jam packed with lessons for entrepreneurs, we hope you enjoy our conversation with Amy.

This weeks episode is a conversation with Dr. Travis Parry. The Make Time Institute is all about finding balance. Travis shared some great tips for entrepreneurs about finding balance while building their company. He talked about how entrepreneurs typically leave their 9 to 5 to get better balance and it ends up getting worse for them, the make time institute is there to help entrepreneurs avoid the workaholic trap. 

We are starting off season 2 with a bang! this conversation with Ben Perkins was fun. It all started in Hong Kong and bens hatred of white shirts. He wanted a white shirt that was comfortable and decided it was time that one existed. &Collar makes White shirts for guys who hate white shirts by guys who hate white shirts. this was a great episode and we hope you enjoy it. 

It’s a wrap for season 1. This week we do a quick recap of our first season. We talked about the lessons we learned, stories we heard, and incredible founders we were able to meet this year. It has been a fun year, both of us are looking forward to the exciting guests we have lined up for the start of season two that will be out next week! As always thanks for tuning in.