The Nikon Don

I’m Nathan Chan, the founder of Foundr. I’ve interviewed hundreds of founders, including: - Alex Hormozi - Tony Robbins - Gary Vaynerchuk - Daymond John - Tim Ferriss - Richard Branson - Arianna Huffington - Emma Grede - Sophia Amoruso - Codie Sanchez And so many more. Here’s a little about me and what I've done so far: > Grew up in the Melbourne suburbs. Mum was a nurse, Dad was a teacher, and we had no connections > Worked an IT support job I hated, literally crawling under people's desks and changing their passwords > Started a little digital magazine in 2013 as a side hustle... some nights I worked on it until 5am, then went straight to my day job > Sued by one of the biggest business magazines in the states, which turned out to be a massive blessing in disguise > Around the same time, I kept calling Richard Branson's head of PR until she picked up. He agreed to the cover, and I gave the Richard Branson edition away for free > Went full time in 2014 and never raised money (I wanted to control my own destiny) > Grew our Instagram from 0 to 10,000 followers in two weeks. I wrote a blog post on it that went semi-viral, people started asking for a course, and that course became our education business > Built and exited Healthish, a DTC brand that was essentially a one-product company selling a time-marked water bottle > Spent 10s of millions profitably on ads using my own money (but also lost millions too) > Interviewed hundreds founders, including countless billionaires and some of the greatest entrepreneurs across multiple generations > Have built one of the largest online education platforms in the ecom space and see everything that works and also everything that fails > Been building Foundr for the past 13 years, and I'm still building it And here’s what I'll be posting about: > What these founder interviews taught me about scaling profitable businesses > Why no agency is ever going to care about your brand as much as you do, and what that means for your ads > Why one problem, one feature beats a full catalog (what Healthish taught me) > Even more lessons from the founders on my podcast, including the stuff that never makes the highlight reel My goal going into 2027 is to share all the lessons I've learned on my journey, in the hope of helping you guys on yours. If that's the kind of thing you want to follow, stick around.