"The Million Dollar Curtain Pull" with Simon Swords

About this episode

Nikhil Suresh interviews Simon Swords about business strategies and the importance of annual recurring revenue.

Today we've got Simon Swords, the managing director at Fundipedia and all-around extremely cool guy. His first email to me had this at the start, middle, and end: "DO NOT START A BUSINESS THAT DOES NOT HAVE A LARGE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL RECURRING REVENUE." And I cannot begin to describe how much suffering he has saved me. With my newfound internet fame, I am going to upgrade my recording setup substantially after this one - so this is and the next episode (already recorded) are hopefully the last times I apologize for the audio. Sorry Simon!

People in this episode

Host: Nikhil Suresh

Guest: Simon Swords

Topics covered

• business advice
• annual recurring revenue
• entrepreneurship
• audio quality
• internet fame

Keywords

• business
• recurring revenue
• entrepreneur
• audio setup
• internet fame

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fundipedia

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