Marcel Herz is co-founder and CEO of Tiliter , a company that is accelerating the democratization of computer vision. Presently they are focused on the grocery store industry, offering a device used at checkout to scan and identify fruits, vegetables, baked goods - anything that is loose without a barcode. This is just the tip of the iceberg however, as you can imagine being able to scan and identify real world objects will have countless applications, especially as the software gets better and ...
Jul 26, 2021•57 min
Bryan M Clayton is the co-founder of Green Pal , an 'Uber for lawncare' technology platform, connecting lawn mowing providers to customers all over the United States. Bryan got his start as a teenager when his father forced him to cut a neighbours lawn to earn some money. Bryan liked being in charge of his income and over the next decade went on to build one of the largest lawncare companies in his city, earning over $10 Million a year in revenue with a team of 150+. After a decade, Bryan decide...
Jul 23, 2021•50 min
Pili and Jason Yarusi are real estate investors who today focus on multi-family properties -- buildings that can house for example 90 apartments. They didn't start out focusing on this type of property. Like many, they began with renovation flips, buying single family homes, upgrading them, then selling for a profit. During this podcast Pili and Jason take us back through some of their pre-property investment days, including how they met working at a bar, but didn't get together for ten years. W...
Jul 16, 2021•56 min
Nathan Barry is the founder and CEO of ConvertKit.com , an email newsletter platform for creators to send newsletters and run email marketing campaigns. Nathan is well known for transparency, sharing the behind the scenes growth in revenue of his company from day one. At the time of this interview, ConvertKit is generating over $28 Million a year in sales. During this podcast we first cover all the businesses and roles Nathan had before he started ConvertKit, from running a web design agency at ...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Jonathan Little is a professional poker player with over $7 Million in career earnings from tournaments (both online and in person) and is one of the most popular poker coaches/personalities in the industry. He's also co-founder of PokerCoaching.com , a membership site and training community with over 5500 paying members, making it a multiple seven-figure business. I met Jonathan via Jason Calacanis and his angel investor syndicate . Jonathan is an active investor in all kinds of different asset...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and General Partner of a venture capital firm that, and I quote from their website, invests in "hilariously early startups". Hustle Fund typically invests $25,000 as a starting point into startups that have yet to show any revenues. Instead, they look for traction in other ways, which Elizabeth explains in this interview. We also go back in time looking at Elizabeth's own history as an entrepreneur, starting a company called LaunchBit , an advertising network, whi...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr
Introducing a new experiment on the Vested Capital podcast - a group show with some of my best friends. Meet Nick, Mani and Gideon . Three guys I've known for years who I speak to on a regular basis. Through our friendship we discuss all the topics that I cover here on Vested Capital, so I thought why not start a group show we can drop on the feed here once a month - or on whatever schedule we end up focusing on. I'm a big fan of listening in to conversations with people who are doing interestin...
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Jennifer Beck is currently the founder of Jihi.com , a CBD skin and body care producer that aims to help high performing people sleep better and recover faster. Before this, Jennifer was co-founder of Cannabase , a wholesale exchange platform for the legal cannabis industry, which was acquired for over seven figures by Helix TCS . I knew the cannabis industry was heavily regulated, but I didn't realize how much of a challenge it presents to potential founders until I heard Jennifer explain what ...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 6 min
I am resurfacing my interview with Greg Smith , founder of Thinkific.com , a Vancouver based SAAS servicing course creators, because this year (2021) Thinkific did an IPO on the TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) raising $160 Million. As I type this, Thinkific has a market cap of $1.36 billion dollars, making it one of the rare Canadian tech unicorns. Greg and his brother launched the company initially with a much more hands-on approach (it was more like an agency service to begin with), and then slow...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Chris Bakke is currently founder of Laskie.com , a startup focused on becoming the Upwork for enterprise hiring. Previously he was co-founder of Interviewed, which was acquired by Indeed for 'mid 8 figures' after just two and a half years. Prior to this he worked as COO for 42Floors ( acquired by Knotel ) and RentJuice, which was acquired by Zillow , where Chris also worked for several years. Chris in this interview explains his part in all these companies, first starting as an early employee in...
Jun 15, 2021•53 min
The world of music rights is a lot more confusing than I thought. There are many stakeholders who are all supposed to get a share of the revenue from music used online - from labels, publishers, platforms, song writers and of course the artist who created the music. Jeff Ponchick worked in the world of digital music and knew well all the paper work required to make music rights work. He decided to start a company that attempted to digitize the music rights process, and thus make it a lot easier ...
Jun 04, 2021•51 min
In the previous episode of Vested Capital ( EP2 ), we talked with David Horne and Marty Balkema, founders of Calm Capital . They had recently acquired the company Wavve . On this episode, Baird Hall , one of the co-founders of Wavve, shares the other side of that acquisition, as the seller of Wavve. Baird takes us back in time to the origin story of Wavve, how it was a spinoff company from their first business when they needed to create audio snippets for sharing on social media. The spinoff com...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 11 min
David Horne and Marty Balkema are founders of Calm Capital , a holding company with at the time of this recording, 10 companies under management with $8 Million in total annual revenue. The holding company model, popularized by Warren Buffet and Charlie Monger with Berkshire Hathaway, is becoming more and more common in the world of online business. David and Marty help demystify what exactly a holding company investment strategy is and take us through an example acquisition, their first company...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Mark Asquith , otherwise known as the 'British Podcast Guy' is the founder of several podcast related companies, including Captivate.fm, a web hosting, analytics and distribution SAAS for podcasters. Mark, like many entrepreneurs, got his start with an agency doing general web and media development services. Eventually this led to a spinoff podcast specific web design company, which Mark and his Co-Founder left the agency to focus on. After entering the world of podcasting Mark never looked back...
May 22, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Welcome to episode zero of Vested Capital . Although the title may be new, the show is still hosted by me (Yaro) and will continue in a very similar style to what you are used to from The Yaro Podcast and before that, the Entrepreneurs Journey Podcast . Why Vested Capital? Vested Capital is about how to make money and then put that money to work to make more money -- in other words, how to vest your capital! I'll still be doing interviews with entrepreneurs, but I'm going to expand the scope of ...
May 15, 2021•45 min
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Nov 04, 2020•52 min
Brendan Hill got his start online using a simple formula. He traveled overseas to Europe, purchased signed football jerseys, then returned to Australia to sell them at a profit. With Australia being so far from Europe, it was difficult for Aussies...
Oct 15, 2020•53 min
[ Download MP3 | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] Aurelien Amacker is a French internet marketer, who prior to his current success with a software as a service (SAAS) company, Systeme.io, made a solid income as a launch-focused internet marketer. Aurelien began teaching internet marketing to a French audience […]
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Dr. John Demartini is somewhat of a legend in the world of personal development. In this podcast, he walks through his entire journey and shares his personal strategy to achieve financial independence, particularly with his mindset around times of crisis.
May 14, 2020•53 min
I first connected with Danielle Lewis when she started BrisbaneThreads.com – a side project where she featured and fostered the local fashion scene. After 5 pivots, she's finally arrived at Scrunch.com – an influencer marketing agency. Listen to her story
Apr 28, 2020•43 min
[ Download MP3 | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] In late 2019 on my LinkedIn news feed, an article popped up with the following title – Finder co-founder Fred Schebesta has debuted on the Young Rich List with a $193 million fortune I immediately thought — I know this guy! […]
Feb 24, 2020•44 min
Content marketing is simple but difficult. Nat Eliason shares how he generated $7,000 a month in passive income from free traffic. Learn more here...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min
10+ years ago, Adnan Ebrahim, inspired by my podcast interview with Alborz Fallah, started CarThrottle. He's since grown his car blog to a multimillion dollar empire. Learn more here...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 22 min
This is the longest interview podcast I have ever published. From a bedroom in Brisbane Australia to a $62 million dollar sale to a large media company – Alborz Fallah shares everything about his journey. Listen to learn more...
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 53 min
Is it possible to 'hack' the SAT test to achieve a perfect score? How about 'hacking' your way to get a billionaire to invest in your business? In this podcast, Shaan Patel shares how he accomplished both. Click here to learn more...
Oct 21, 2019•59 min
Is it possible to mix friendship and business? In this episode, interior designer Christina Symes shares show she puts her friendship first in business. Click to learn more...
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Is it possible to network your way to the very top? James Mel shares how he went from unknown to Eben Pagan's business partner. Click to learn more here...
Apr 04, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Claire Giovino is my partner and cofounder for InboxDone.com. In this podcast, she explains how we went from 0 to 6 figures in a year. Click to learn more..
Jan 27, 2019•41 min
Building a software startup? In this podcast, David Hauser explains how he built Grasshopper and eventually sold to Citrix for $170M. Click here to learn...
Oct 27, 2018•51 min
A lot of people are too afraid to change careers because of how disrupting it would be to their comfort zone, even if they are not happy with their job. Cory Sanchez is not one of them. In fact, he's changed careers 4 times and succeeded every time. Click here to listen to his story...
May 23, 2018•1 hr 35 min
