Ollie Austen | Co-Founder of Startup 2 Standup | The Importance of Nurturing Founders as the Wealth Creators of the Future

In this episode of the FounderTech Decoded podcast we talk to Ollie Austen the Co-Founder of Startup 2 Standup. A diverse, growing and engaged community of experienced founders who want to help and support each other as they navigate their journey through the startup ecosystem.

The conversation is a window into the current status of the founder conversation, drawing on Ollie's experience of personally talking to up to 100 founders a month, to listen to and understand their current needs, frustrations and the frequent isolation between their current erratic experience contrasted with investors often demanding expectations.

We talk about how if founders are the wealth creators of the future, why the expectation is always on them to have all the answers to prove themselves up front and whether the new emerging alternative modes of funding are a way to break that asymmetric deadlock, by creating more options and early stage paths to startup capital and funding.

We explore how what Olli calls 'resistance points' play a role in this. Those typical barriers and milestones that a founder must cross in order to be on the road to being 'successful' and why engaged communities like Startup 2 Standup are so vital in making founders feel like they're fundamentally not alone in that often lonely journey.

Explore and connect more here:

> https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollie-austen

> https://www.startup2standup.com/