The Midnight Founders Podcast

This weeks episode was a great conversation with Curtis Blair who is currently the president of the Utah Valley Chamber. He shared some very great lessons from starting and running multiple companies. Curtis also let us have a sneak peak of his Principles of Prosperity that he is compiling from interviews with nearly 100 local leaders from our valley. We loved our time with Curtis and hope you do as well. 

We had a great conversation with Dale Majors from Venture Anyway. Venture Anyway is focused on championing entrepreneurs and helping them come away from his events being more deliberate and intentional on their entrepreneurial journey.  He talked about building a multimillion dollar business that started by selling some free stickers he collected from a convention. He is a bike touring aficionado and is willing to share all of the lessons he has learned from his thousands of miles of bike touring.  He shared some awesome lessons learned along the way, hope you enjoy our conversation with Dale. 

this weeks episode is a conversation with Kenny Scott who is the founder of CEO of Paramify. He talked about how he dug into the things he hated about his job and how that led him to starting paramify. Sometimes the internal drive to solve a problem is all it takes to start a successful business. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Kenny. 

This weeks episode is a conversation with Cydni Rogers Tetro who among 50 other things, is currently serving as the CEO of Brandless. She holds the record for the largest fundraise led by a women in silicon slopes, but her goal as founder and president of the Women Tech Council is to help other women crush that record. She prides herself on developing customer experience strategies, go to market programs, and fueling venture backed startups.  She was recently recognized as CEO of the Year and Women of the Year. She is a trailblazer and is focused on championing others around her. She shared some incredible advice for founders and how to build confidence in the boardroom and she introduced a new principle to us of doing "One More Thing". It was a pleasure to sit down with this growth leader, technologist, STEM advocate, and Author. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Cyd. 

Romney is a startup junkie he has been a founder as well as joined founders as a CEO to help the founder focus on what they are good at. He has a very unique perspective and shared some incredible insights for founders. He fell in love with the idea of selling products and has helped build multiple consumer product companies. He loves joining companies that are taking on goliaths and disrupting industries. We hope you enjoy getting to know Romney. 

This week's episode is a conversation with Logan Nicholson who is the CEO of LocalEyes. Logan has learned some valuable lessons along his entrepreneurial journey and has found a lot of value from putting pressure on himself to accomplish his goals. We hope you enjoy the conversation with Logan. 

This week's episode is with John Sperry from Halosight. John exited his prior startup InMoment in 2019. He has some great advice for entrepreneurs. He looks back over his career and wishes that he would have started his entrepreneurial journey sooner. If you are thinking about starting a company, this conversation with John may be the nudge you need to make the jump. 

This week’s episode is a conversation with Chris Yadon who is the managing director of Saprea. Chris is using his experience running multiple startups to manage Saprea. He shared great lessons learned throughout his career and drew many parallels between the for profit and non profit companies he has managed. We hope you enjoy this episode! 

This week's episode is a conversation with Paul Brown who is a co-director of the Masters of Business Creation Program at the University of Utah. We talked about his experience going from a philosophy degree to become a venture capitalist. He shared amazing insights from his experience as an angel investor, venture capitalist, board member, and now a professor and the hundreds of companies he has been involved with over the years. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Paul. 

In this week's episode, we had a great conversation with Jordan Erskine and Gavin Collier who are the cofounders of Dynamic Blending. They are friends that worked together early on in their careers and then came back together years later to start their business. They talked about the decision they made to double down on themselves instead of taking outside funding, they wanted to maintain the control and ownership of their company and that risk has paid off big for them as their company has grown.