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Nothing Ventured - In Conversation with Matt Jonns, Founder of Founder and Lightning
Matt Jonns, Founder and Lightning, Digitising his family business, Tech startups and non technical founders, Building painkillers not vitamins, Falling in love with the problem, Take your ego out of your idea, š„Plusš„ Aarish will be talking live with SeedLegal's Anthony Rose about bringing a CFO into your business
Aarish Shah
September 01, 2023
šš¾ Hey there!
As I may have mentioned (more than once) before, other than my core consultancy business, I also founded a tech venture that ran out of money at the end of Q1 2023.
Whilst I consider myself pretty switched on and can even write a snazzy bit of python that sends a turtle whizzing across the screen, Iād be hard pressed to build anything usable beyond a Wordpress site and a spreadsheet.
What Iām trying to say is that I am the quintessential non technical founderā¦ someone that knew enough to be dangerous, but not enough to do any damage.
And I made ALL the mistakes that non-technical founders make.
I hired a CTO too quickly, built too soon, validated too late and every other cliche in the book.
Thatās why I was so excited to speak to Matt Jonns, Founder of Founder and Lightning, an agency that invests in and builds tech companies with non-technical founders.
Matt has brought his own experience to the fore and leveraged the learnings of digitising his own familyās business into providing a way for non-technical founders to turn all or part of their business into a digital proposition, hence boosting revenue and potential value.
In a world that had gotten so used to splashy headlines of multi million dollar fundraises, a voice like Mattās provides a great balance and inspiration for lots of founders who would like to level up their business but arenāt looking for the billion dollar exit.
Read on to explore what we discussed in the latest podcast episode and listen to or watch the podcast directly.
p.s. I love feedback so please do tell me your thoughts on the episode! Iād love your opinion on what I could do better, who youād like to hear from and anything else you might want to let me know - just reply to this email :)
Iām also very open to conversations, so give me a follow on LinkedIn, Twitter (at least until it implodes), Instagram and now Threads and drop me a note :)
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With that said, letās get into it.
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In conversation with Matt Jonns - Founder at Founder and Lightning.
I first reached out to Matt in April after we interacted in my comments section on LinkedIn. I really liked the approach he had to building with non-technical founders, and having tried and more or less āfailedā myself, I could see the value in what it was that they were building.
We caught up at the studio, and after a brief play tussle with Benjie, the resident dog, we got stuck right in.
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