Multi-million pound exit, property investing and building an AI startup - Sam Oliver

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The Founders Lounge

Matic Jesenovec

89 episodes

6 days ago

Imagine you are friends with some of the UK’s best entrepreneurs. Now imagine you can grab a drink with each of them and casually chat about business ideas, motivations, tactics, strategies and success habits. That’s what The Founders Lounge is all about. It provides real insights into the real day-to-day lives of real founders, CEOs and other business professionals every week. Hosted by Matic Jesenovec.

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Multi-million pound exit, property investing and building an AI startup - Sam Oliver | E89

The Founders Lounge

1 hour 6 minutes 36 seconds

1 year ago

Multi-million pound exit, property investing and building an AI startup - Sam Oliver | E89

Sam Oliver started his entrepreneurial journey when he was just 22, founding Eydin Property, a property investment company. He then pivoted to tech, creating LeadPro, a successful property marketing software that he took from zero to a multi-million pound cash exit. Now, Sam is diving into the world of AI with his new startup, OpenFi, which is revolutionizing sales processes using conversational AI.

We talk about:

- Starting a property investment business at a young age

- Key lessons from his first failed startup

- How Sam leveraged property investments to build wealth

- How to compete against VC-backed startups

- The ups and downs of building and selling LeadPro

- Lessons learned from nearly going bust during COVID

- The power of negotiation in securing a favorable exit

- Post-exit identity crisis: to retire or to start a new business?

- The value of niche markets and the dangers of limited scalability

- The importance of market validation and how to do it

- The potential of AI in transforming industries

- Overcoming fear and assessing risk in business

Links:

- Sam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam0liver/

- OpenFi: https://www.openfi.tech/

- Advance To Go book by Sam Oliver: https://www.advancetogo.com/

- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602

- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/dp/1492180742

- Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestley: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oversubscribed-How-People-Lining-Business/dp/0857086197

- On Identity by Amin Maalouf: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Identity-Amin-Maalouf/dp/1860467296

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