Accounted For

Daniel Lee
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Accounted For

Everyone walks a unique career journey. No matter how "linear" it may look in their LinkedIn profile, it is never that simple. Most people that have careers you aspire to have had to struggle. They had their own obstacles and made their own luck. Some careers you dream about may not even be what you assumed it would be. All assumptions should be tested and that is what I seek to do in this podcast. Follow along as I interview people on what they actually do in their careers and why they made the jumps in their careers, some quite unorthodox.

  1. 2020-05-06

    #83 - Justin Jackson, Co-Founder of Transistor.fm. From Not-for-Profits to Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable SaaS Company Helping Podcasters.

    Join in for a conversation with Justin Jackson, Co-Founder of Transistor.fm. It’s a podcast hosting service and full disclosure, Accounted For is hosted on Transistor. I learned about the company and Justin because Basecamp’s podcast is hosted on Transistor and I further learned how Justin bootstrapped Transistor 2 years ago to a company that generated monthly recurring revenue exceeding $50,000. Justin didn’t start out in tech or podcasts but working for a not-for-profit for the first 7 years of his career. In our chat we dive into Justin’s decision into switch into tech at 28, navigating a career to product management in tech startups, starting his first company, building a community with podcasts and his journey with building a successfully bootstrapped SaaS company.

    1h 25m

  2. 2020-04-22

    #82 - Matt Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures. Equity Trading on Wall Street to Tech Operator turned Venture Investor.

    Join in for a conversation with Matt Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures. Ripple Ventures is a Toronto-based early-stage venture fund that works alongside startups through the good and the bad every day. Fitting with their motto of “Operators First” per Matt’s background as an operator turned investor. Though before Matt became an operator, his career started in finance as an equity trader for RBC, completing tours on Wall Street and Bay Street. While working in capital markets, he made a seed investment in Turnstyle Solutions, cutting his operator’s teeth on the company’s journey to getting acquired by Yelp. We go through the various pivots in Matt’s journey from capital markets, tech operations, angel investing and to his current role of running a venture capital fund. As always, it was never a pre-planned linear journey and we dig through every part of it.

    1h 3m

  3. 2020-04-08

    #81 - Terrance Kwok, Product Manager at HyperComply. From Audit to Startup Sales Rep to Product Manager and Digital Nomad.

    Join in for a conversation with Terrance Kwok, Product Manager at HyperComply. Terrance was one of the pivotal folks who recruited me to KPMG to start my accounting career. It’s been a while since then and today we go through Terrance’s journey from leaving accounting just before getting the Chartered Accountant designation to join a young Vidyard, before it became the 150+ tech company it is now, in an entry role in sales. We explore how he pivoted from sales to product management, working remotely in London, UK while working for a company based out of Kitchener and his subsequent journey being a digital nomad product manager at Chilipiper and HyperComply. This was a super fun conversation where we dove into what it was actually like to make each pivotal jump in Terrance’s career and how shame, embarrassment and doubt are all real and even normal emotions when you go through an unconventional career. Please forgive me on places where the audio quality isn’t as great as with COVID-19, Terrance was taking refuge in a hotel where the connection wasn’t the best. But, I promise it won’t change how fun this conversation will be for you!

    1h 8m

  4. 2020-03-25

    #80 - [Anonymous-Moatsixcap] Investing During the COVID-19 Bear Market & Finding Resistant Businesses.

    Join in for a conversation is another anonymous podcast with a return guest from episode 29 where we turnover the rock of working in a hedge fund in Canada. This was a top 10 downloaded episode in 2019 so what better way then to bring on my guest back during a time of market turmoil to see how it’s been like being an investor at a fund. Turns out, my guest already has an anonymous profile in the finance Twitter community as Moatsixcap. We chat about what it’s like being a fund manager during a time when the stock market plummets 30%+, deeper into what my guest is investing in, interesting companies worth digging into, and much more.

    1h 5m

  5. 2020-03-11

    #79 - Josh Broun, Co-Owner of Impact Kitchen. Baseball, Teaching and Personal Training to Entrepreneurship in Wellness.

    Join in for a conversation with Josh Broun, Co-owner of Impact Kitchen. Impact Kitchen is a wellness company with 4 restaurants in Toronto. I’ve been a fan of Impact Kitchen since it’s first location at King East and I’ve been a patron here at least once a week for the last few years. It’s one of my staple places for legit healthy meals. My go-to is the paleo waffle though. A comfort food. So it was a real treat to speak with Josh, the man who helped create a place where I could get awesome coffee, work out of for a few hours, have some high-quality healthy food, in an awesome atmosphere. Josh’s journey did not start as a restauranteur. A hint, it involves going to university on a baseball scholarship in the US, studying health science, pursuing teaching, then firefighting, then becoming a personal trainer for successful entrepreneurs. Josh rekindled an inner entrepreneurial fire while getting a masterclass on business from his clients as he learned about their lives over the years. Through our chat, we go through the stress he felt early when he didn’t feel like he had his life figured out at 25 to the journey of starting Impact Kitchen at 35 to what it’s been like in the last 5 years of building the business.

    1h 17m

  6. 2020-03-04

    #78 - Elvis Wong, Founder & Managing Director of Innovate Financial Health. Consulting to Accelerators and Tackling Financial Health.

    Join in for a conversation with Elvis Wong, Founder and Managing Director of Innovate Financial Health (IFH). IFH is a not for profit accelerator based in Toronto that works with start-ups addressing the problem of financial health for financially vulnerable Canadians. Having developed a passion for social impact since high school, Elvis leveraged his experience as a management consultant to join the MaRS Studio Y Fellowship program to find ways of using technology to create social impact. What he did not expect was that he would be solving a problem in wealth inequality that would lead him to opportunities working with Social Capital Partners, one of the leaders of impact investing in Canada, and starting an accelerator backed by JP Morgan Chase and Capital One. In addition to dissecting his journey to creating IFH, we dig into the various learnings he has had from building an accelerator and strategies for forming partnerships with large corporations.

    1h 5m

  7. 2020-02-27

    #77 - Miguel Fernando, Founder of Moment Financial. International Finance to FinTech Product Management and Entrepreneurship

    Join in for a conversation with Miguel Fernando, the Founder of Moment Financial. Miguel navigated a career starting in international finance to building products in FinTech companies to becoming a full-time bootstrapped entrepreneur. Miguel started his career in finance as an economic researcher at RBC and moved over to international wealth management with a focus on Central and Latin America. He made the pivot to work in a product role and become a product manager after realizing he enjoyed building internal tools and solutions while working for the bank and made the leap to join a FinTech company while teaching himself product management and coding through bootcamps and online courses. He went onto build the advisory solutions product for Purpose Investment’s Purpose Advisory Solutions business and made another leap into entrepreneurship. Something he felt he had to do. We talk a lot about the early years of entrepreneurship, what it was like making the decision, what gap he saw in the market, and much more.

    1h 16m

  8. 2020-02-20

    #76 - Marc Champagne, Host of Behind The Human Podcast, Returns. Economics of Building an App, Shutting down Kyo, Writing a Book and The Journey.

    Join in for a conversation with a return guest, Marc Champagne. Marc is the Co-Founder of Kyo and Host of Behind The Human Podcast. In episode 46 we talked about Marc’s journey of building Kyo after a career in pharmaceuticals. In today’s episode, we talk through the developments since the year. The process and reason behind shutting down Kyo, the digital journaling app that had 86 million impressions and a community of 200,000 users. We talk about the difference between app rankings and user metrics vs. the economic reality of operating it. We also talk about Marc’s journey of building communities and how the podcast led to so much more than a personal brand, his new pursuit of consulting human-centric companies on brand strategy and writing a book on mental fitness. Traditional media only touts the stories of exits for obscene financial numbers but in our conversation today we talk about the daily process of building something, the constant ups and downs and the many iterations we will make in our journey to build something that is meaningful and fulfilling.

    1h 4m
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Everyone walks a unique career journey. No matter how "linear" it may look in their LinkedIn profile, it is never that simple. Most people that have careers you aspire to have had to struggle. They had their own obstacles and made their own luck. Some careers you dream about may not even be what you assumed it would be. All assumptions should be tested and that is what I seek to do in this podcast. Follow along as I interview people on what they actually do in their careers and why they made the jumps in their careers, some quite unorthodox.

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  • Creator
    Daniel Lee
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2020
  • Episodes
    89
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © OMD Ventures
  • Show Website
    Accounted For

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