Mike Quinn From Zoona - Failing To Win, The Difference Between Having Failed And Thinking You Are A Failure, Navigating Self Doubt, How To Manage Your Board, The Fewest “Right” People, Why Being A Parent Makes You A Better Leader, Reduce The Drag Co
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With me today is Mike Quinn, the founder of Zoona, one of Africa’s startup darlings for a period of time. He and three other cofounders built Zoona, a money transfer and remittance business, to over 3000 agents transactacting $2.5Bn across two African markets - Zambia and Malawi. They earned $86 million in revenue along the journey. He was one of the first founders on the continent to ever raise venture money and raised through Series B before their Series C and ultimately the future growth of the company went into a death spiral. He wrote his reflections in a book titled “Failing to Win” and he is now on to building his next venture, Boost. Hear more from him on:
1) Learning from Failure - The Startup CEO and Founder Reality
We are All Failing All the Time
The Difference Between Having Failed and Thinking You Are a Failure
Navigating Self Doubt in Tough Moments
Making the Decision to Leave Your Own Company
You are Not Going through the Founder Journey Alone if You Do it Right
How Being a Dad and Husband made Mike a Better Leader
2) Managing Your Board
Managing the Culture of Your Board as You Would Your Team
Reduce the Drag Coefficient of Your Board
Talk about What Actually Matters at Your Board vs Reporting and Updates
How to Communicate to the Board When You Are Disappointing Them
3) Exiting a Key Executive
Deciding to Exit A Key Executive Who Doesn’t Fit Your Culture
When Your Culture Is Misaligned Internally and How You Know
When Someone Breeds a Different Culture Internally to What You Have
When International Expansion Fails in a New Market after it Worked in Others
4) Team and Culture
How to Hire The Fewest “Right” People
Culture Exists Whether You Care About it or Not
Managing Culture and Morale When Contracting not Scaling
Behaviours not Values are What Matter
Finding a CoFounder Who Complements Your BlindSpots
Find Mike's book on https://www.amazon.co.uk/Failing-Win-Hard-Earned-Purpose-Driven-Start-Up/dp/B09C91P95D/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=131022215409andgclid=CjwKCAjw9qiTBhBbEiwAp-GE0S2DSq7MCFdUuDqmiUakB3a6QXpsR-AAfXfzFyqkeTGd9PTMrVfPgBoCkXwQAvD_BwEandhvadid=551744487298andhvdev=candhvlocphy=9046047andhvnetw=gandhvqmt=eandhvrand=2364648083013668073andhvtargid=kwd-1436691445643andhydadcr=24432_1748954andkeywords=failing+to+win+mike+quinnandqid=1651137992andsr=8-1 (Amazon and Audible)
Find out more at https://kindredcapital.vc/FoundersUncut (KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut)
This podcast was produced by https://fascinateproductions.co.uk/ (Fascinate Productions)
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