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Startup Ignition Podcast

Startup Ignition Podcast

著者： John & Tyler Richards
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Father and son team John and Tyler Richards — veteran entrepreneurs, venture investors, mentors, and educators — discuss all things entrepreneurship and venture capital.Startup Ignition Academy, Inc. マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • Peter Harris: GP of a Student-Ran VC University Growth Fund, OpenAI, Anthropic, passing on SpaceX

    Peter Harris: GP of a Student-Ran VC University Growth Fund, OpenAI, Anthropic, passing on SpaceX
    2026/10/08
    Peter Harris had the chance to invest in SpaceX at a $20 billion valuation, and passed. One of his students was the team lead on that deal, pounding the table ("it is Elon effing Musk"), and was the first person to text him the day SpaceX went public. Today SpaceX is worth about $2 trillion. Peter is the co-founder and partner of University Growth Fund, the largest student-run venture capital fund in the United States, where students scout deals, run due diligence and sit alongside the partners on investments in companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Lyft and Airbnb. He tells John and Tyler how he joined the fund as a BYU student when it was the $18 million University Venture Fund, helped rebuild it after its founders left, and split off in 2014 to keep doing venture instead of impact investing. He breaks down how a student-run fund gets into deals this good, why his students see a near-100% placement rate and ~$120K starting salaries, raising a $32M Fund I over a two-year grind and a $56M Fund II right as COVID hit, what Tiger Global got wrong in 2021, and why AI is pushing venture into a world where "you're either first or you're big." Plus: his advice for founders ("don't raise venture capital"; it's "like taking heroin to run faster"), how he's rebuilding his mom's bankruptcy practice with AI agents, and a board-game confession: 200+ Kickstarter backs and five-hour games of Twilight Imperium.

    (00:00:00) Cold open: the student fund the University of Utah absorbed
    (00:00:58) Welcome: Peter Harris, a friend of 20 years
    (00:03:35) Official intro: University Growth Fund, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks
    (00:05:50) Icebreaker: why Elon Musk is his favorite entrepreneur
    (00:08:00) The one that got away: passing on SpaceX at $20 billion
    (00:09:41) The student who pounded the table: "It is Elon effing Musk"
    (00:15:28) Growing up in Syracuse, and his dad's Rich Dad Poor Dad leap
    (00:18:47) Joining the University Venture Fund as a BYU student
    (00:21:13) What makes a student-run venture fund different
    (00:24:54) 2014: impact fund vs. venture fund, and the split
    (00:30:15) How a student-run fund gets into Lyft, OpenAI and Anthropic
    (00:33:54) 100% placement and ~$120K starting salaries
    (00:36:22) Fund I: $32M, a two-year grind, doubled in the final month
    (00:38:27) Why "just trust me" is the hardest pitch in venture
    (00:39:31) Fund II: going to market in February 2020, right as COVID hit
    (00:41:12) What they look for: $2-4M in revenue and real demand
    (00:47:10) How he navigated 2021's insane valuations
    (00:51:03) What Tiger Global got wrong
    (00:53:04) Tiger's playbook: $100M a year to Bain, term sheets in a day
    (00:58:14) The future of VC: what AI does to venture
    (01:00:27) The demo day where nothing was fundable
    (01:02:31) The power law shifts: "You're either first or you're big"
    (01:07:26) Advice for founders: don't raise venture capital
    (01:08:04) "Like taking heroin to run faster"
    (01:08:38) Leverage AI: rebuilding his mom's bankruptcy practice with agents
    (01:11:35) Wrap-up

    Learn more about us:
    https://startupignition.com/links

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    #StartupIgnition #PeterHarris #VentureCapital #SpaceX #StartupAdvice
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    1 時間 13 分
  • Bubba Page: I Lost Myself In Startup Failure, Techstars, LinkedIn, Angel, Faith, Influencers, 8 kids

    Bubba Page: I Lost Myself In Startup Failure, Techstars, LinkedIn, Angel, Faith, Influencers, 8 kids
    2026/10/01
    Bubba Page borrowed $5,000 from his parents to join a six-founder BYU startup, sold his stake two years later for a 10x return, and got paid half of it in office chairs (everyone in his family got one for Christmas). From there he bootstrapped LaunchLeads, a tech-enabled sales company, to multiple millions and the Inc. 5000, won Utah's Google Startup Weekend, went through Techstars Boulder, and raised $1.25 million for Outro, a double-opt-in referral platform built on LinkedIn data. Then LinkedIn changed its platform and cut Outro off at the knees. Bubba tells John and Tyler what that failure did to him ("I lost myself in this process"), the investor who said "we'll invest in you again," and the lesson he wants every founder to hear: don't tie your business to someone else's platform. Plus: why trial and error is too expensive a teacher, the three questions that make anyone feel like you're their best friend, why every student should be on LinkedIn, how he runs Influence VC as an AngelList syndicate of 200 angels backing consumer brands with influencer expertise, why he dropped "Brant" and went back to "Bubba," and the legacy he wants to leave behind: faith, family, and building abundance without losing what matters most.

    (00:00:00) Cold open: a year with no paycheck, and the deal he made at home
    (00:01:05) Welcome, episode 62 with Bubba Page
    (00:01:48) Official intro: LaunchLeads, Techstars, Influence VC
    (00:05:04) Icebreaker: favorite brands (Cotopaxi, Josh's Pickles, Tesla)
    (00:13:03) Winning Google Startup Weekend in 2014
    (00:16:00) Growing up in the Bay Area, then a senior-year move to Mesa
    (00:20:38) Techstars' Next program with John
    (00:24:02) Why trial and error is too expensive: get a mentor
    (00:28:45) The 3 questions that make anyone feel like your best friend
    (00:30:59) Seatability: six founders, $5K from his parents, a 10x exit
    (00:32:10) Paid out in $25,000 of office chairs
    (00:34:38) Starting LaunchLeads: a "mini MarketStar" with Alan Hall
    (00:37:00) Techstars Boulder and Outro.com
    (00:39:06) Mistake #1: don't tie your business to someone else's platform
    (00:40:39) LinkedIn shut it down
    (00:42:49) Techstars, Kickstart, Peterson Ventures: $1.25M raised, and it failed
    (00:48:14) Depression, and the investor who said "we'll invest in you again"
    (00:49:45) The Page Company: building a social media business together
    (00:53:27) Influence VC: angel investing plus influencer expertise
    (00:56:42) Bubba's real name, and why "Brant" didn't stick
    (00:58:43) The one thing: build abundance without losing what matters most
    (00:59:52) The legacy he wants on his deathbed
    (01:03:31) Wrap-up

    Learn more about us:
    https://startupignition.com/links

    Apply to be a guest on the pod:
    https://startup-ignition-podcast.paperform.co/

    Follow John & Tyler:
    https://x.com/trich_
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrichards/

    Subscribe on YouTube:
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    #StartupIgnition #BubbaPage #Techstars #AngelInvesting #StartupFailure
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Arian Lewis: Kiln Coworking, Follow Your Gifts Not Passion, Real Estate, WeWork, Barclays, Oxford

    Arian Lewis: Kiln Coworking, Follow Your Gifts Not Passion, Real Estate, WeWork, Barclays, Oxford
    2026/09/17
    Arian Lewis grew up in Provo watching his single mom turn a 12-kid daycare into a 320-kid childcare center with 50 employees. Today he's the co-founder and CEO of Kiln, the hospitality-driven coworking and flex-office company with 24 locations (37 by end of 2027), 150 team members, and 3,500+ companies working out of its spaces every day, from day-one founders to Mastercard, Intuit and Siemens. He tells John and Tyler the whole road: eight years at Pulte Homes, an Oxford MBA at 32 with three kids in tow, nearly five years at Barclays building fintech coworking spaces in London, New York, Tel Aviv and Cape Town, hosting one of the first Ethereum meetups with Vitalik, then coming home to build "WeWork that works." Arian is blunt about what WeWork actually got wrong (the wrong kind of money, not the founder: "you can't fill a Ferrari full of tequila and then get mad that the kid who likes tequila wrecked it"), why Kiln is really a financing solution, and how patient investors and a lifetime of earned trust carried a flex-office startup through a pandemic. He called every member to cut prices; some refused the discount and kept paying full rate. Plus: why 50% of companies regret their lease within a year, why a cheap office costs 5-10% more in talent, why in-person teams grow 3.5x faster, and his #1 advice: don't just follow your passion, leverage your gifts.

    (00:00:00) Cold open: build trust your whole life, and "why don't we create a little coworking space?"
    (00:00:48) Welcome, episode 61 with Arian Lewis of Kiln
    (00:05:08) Icebreaker: keep it or kill it (open floor plans, office dogs, free lunch)
    (00:10:46) Growing up with a single mom who built a 320-kid daycare
    (00:18:31) Late-bloomer MBA: Oxford at 32 with a family in tow
    (00:21:17) Four years in England: a startup, then Barclays hires him
    (00:25:03) Hosting one of the first Ethereum meetups with Vitalik (and not buying Bitcoin)
    (00:26:51) WeWork: "WeWork that works"
    (00:29:07) Kiln is a financing solution: real estate dollars vs. venture dollars
    (00:31:42) Adam Neumann: "you can't fill a Ferrari full of tequila..."
    (00:35:14) Deciding to build Kiln: "deep in my bones"
    (00:38:32) "Way harder than a software business": raising capital on a lifetime of trust
    (00:39:50) Proof of concept in Lehi and Salt Lake, then the pandemic hit
    (00:41:45) Calling every member to cut prices, and the ones who refused the discount
    (00:45:32) The AI era: 2,000 years of GDP and democratized intelligence
    (00:51:22) Kiln by the numbers: 24 locations, 37 by 2027, 150 team members
    (00:53:33) How Kiln works: Mastercard, Intuit, Siemens, and day-one founders
    (00:54:52) The multi-year lease trap: 50% of companies regret it within a year
    (00:57:29) Remote vs. in-person: office teams grow 3.5x faster
    (01:01:36) Memberships: Kiln Access at $49/month, "$11 a day"
    (01:06:16) The #1 piece of advice: leverage your gifts, not just your passion
    (01:08:37) Wrap-up: get a free day pass at Kiln

    Learn more about us:
    https://startupignition.com/links

    Apply to be a guest on the pod:
    https://startup-ignition-podcast.paperform.co/

    Follow John & Tyler:
    https://x.com/trich_
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrichards/

    Subscribe on YouTube:
    https://www.youtube.com/@StartupIgnition

    Follow on X:
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    Follow on Instagram:
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    #StartupIgnition #ArianLewis #Kiln #Coworking #FlexOffice
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    1 時間 10 分
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