The Everyday Founder
Welcome to the everyday founder podcast with James Farnfield 👋🏽James chats with everyday founders and ask them questions across a range of serious and lighthearted topics.It’s time that we celebrate those everyday founders doing incredible things. Celebrating their successes, learning from their jou...
Recent Episodes
Oct. 2, 2025
The Future of Real-World Asset Tokenization Explained Simply | Florian Ehrbar
Florian Ehrbar, founder of OnchainLabs, went from calling time on a failing consulting gig… to convincing the investor to back a new team and a new idea: connecting real-world assets (skis, classic cars, gold - even trees) to...
Sept. 24, 2025
From RAF Pilot to Deep Tech Founder: Building the Trust Layer for Autonomy at SAIF | Kyle Thomas
Former RAF pilot turned deep-tech founder, Kyle Thomas is building SAIF Autonomy—the “application firewall” for autonomous systems. We get into embodied AI vs deterministic autonomy, what it takes to certify and deploy robots...
Sept. 10, 2025
How This Exited Founder Raised $1.5M from 66 Angels to Launch Insurtech Loxa | Jamie Hamer
What does it take to raise $1.5M from 66 angels across 400 meetings? Jamie Hamer, CEO of Loxa and founder of React News (acquired by Green Street), shares the unfiltered reality. From walking away from a ÂŁ150k salary to makin...
Aug. 27, 2025
From GoDaddy & WeWork to CEO of Epignosis: Scaling Learning for 22M People Globally | Nikhil Arora
Nikhil Arora has built a career at the intersection of leadership, global growth, and purposeful impact. Today, he’s the CEO of Epignosis, the company behind TalentLMS, serving 22M+ learners across 160 countries. But his stor...
Aug. 20, 2025
Scaling from Idea to 120+ People at Legal Tech AI startup - Juro | Richard Mabey
Richard Mabey left a comfortable career as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields to launch Juro, the all-in-one contract platform now trusted by Deliveroo, Cazoo, and hundreds of fast-scaling businesses. Since then, Juro has rais...
Aug. 13, 2025
What Happens When Your Startup Fails - And Your Name Is on the Door | Cecily Motley
In this episode, I sit down with Cecily Motley — founder of Harriet and previously the CEO of Motley, a direct-to-consumer jewellery brand that raised millions before collapsing in the wake of Apple’s privacy update. We talk ...
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