EP 32 - The Love Of The Game with Nathan Evans

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In this episode, we introduce Nathan Evans, WHU-alumn, co-founder of eCommerce startup fulfil, director at the founder's institute in Munich and has 25 years of experience in banking and fintech.

Nathan and I had a great conversation about his fascinating career trajectory: From studying physics to the trading floors of London, from banking to product management to founding fulfin. We even managed to talk about poker as a metaphor for entrepreneurship.

So I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I did the conversation.

Part 1: Nathan Preview (00:04)

Part 2: Introducing Nathan Evans (02:15)

Part 3: Nathan’s founder journey (04:41)

Part 4: “The love of the game” - Making the right decisions as Nathan’s drive  (10:09)

Part 5: Parallels between life and entrepreneurship as a “long game” (12:44)

Part 6: How Nathan’s trajectory led him to founder-market (15:52)

Part 7: Growth financing for young eCommerce companies - the problem fulfin solves (18:07)

Part 8: “Don’t use equity capital to finance working capital” - Nathan’s financing advice (20:58)

Part 9: Bootstrappers are the main customer group of fulfin (23:48)

Part 10: “Nail it and scale it!” - Nathan’s focus in the early times of fulfin (25:03) 

Part 11: “More will try and more will fail!” - Nathan’s prediction on the future of retail and eCommerce (28:55)

Part 12: The effect of rollup companies like Rayzor Group and others on eCommerce entrepreneurs and fulfin (31:50)

Part 13: Nathan’s work as a startup mentor (36:14)

Part 14: The changes in the startup ecosystem in Nathan’s view (39:10)

Part 15: “Founder-fit” as the addition to founder-market fit (42:15)

Part 16: “The love of the game” - For Nathan the only reason to go into entrepreneurship (45:00)

Part 17: What would Nathan tell his younger self? (47:33)

Part 18: What book is Nathan currently reading? (49:39)

Part 19: What is cycling on Nathan’s playlist? (52:38)

Outro Gerrit (54:22)