Business
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)