122: In the Consequences of the Startup Life, Jon Carder, founder of Vessel Health, joins host William Glass to discuss his 23+ year entrepreneurial journey.  From bootstrapping early in his career to raising venture capital, Jon experienced all of the classic trials and tribulations of being a startup founder. Living on Ramen early in his career helped him through the bootstrapping phase, but ultimately took a toll on his health. After discovering functional medicine, Jon was able to revitalize his health and wellbeing. Vessel Health was born to help bring functional medicine to the masses.

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About Jon Carder:

Jon Carder is a serial entrepreneur. He built four start-ups over the last 23 years, including successful 3 exits. Jon has raised ~$100M in venture capital and hired hundreds of employees.

That entrepreneurial lifestyle eventually took its toll and he started having challenges with low energy, brain fog, and trouble sleeping. These problems prevented Jon from consistently showing up as his best self. After talking to friends, he realized that these issues were actually pretty common.

Jon learned that through lab work he could identify the root cause of some of the problems and improve them, but that wasn’t going to happen with his conventional doctor. After a lot of searching he eventually found a functional medicine doctor, who was able to identify, through expensive blood work, that Jon had nutrient deficiencies and high toxin levels.

So, Jon adjusted his supplements, nutrition and lifestyle accordingly. And, within a month, he was feeling the best he had felt in years. This inspired Jon to start Vessel and use new technology to empower people to track and improve their wellness from home.

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121: In A New Way for Content Creators to Engage with Fans, Derek Gorthy, founder at Enshrine, joins host William Glass to discuss how web 3 can bring content creators closer to their fans. Derek shares his journey of founding Enshrine and how NFTs can be used to power a community. Enshrine was founded with creators in mind making it extremely simple to utilize NFTs without having to learn how to code or becoming an expert in web 3. 

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About Derek Gorthy:

Derek started his first business at the age of 15 after teaching himself how to repair Xbox 360 consoles and smartphones. Since then, he has started multiple companies that range from affiliate marketing sites to algorithmic stock trading.

After college, Derek started his career in consulting -- working in the tech, finance, energy, and health industries. He found his niche in understanding difficult concepts and complex systems, then distilling the value of those concepts and systems into a form that anyone could understand.

Derek is currently working on his latest company, Enshrine. Enshrine is a Web3 community engagement platform focused on giving content creators the ability to build unique, cross-platform experiences for their fans. Derek is passionate about the company's mission because he believes content creators should own their financial relationships with their fans, not large tech platforms.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekgorthy/ 

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120: In Unlocking Profit for SaaS Marketplaces, Joe Keeley, founder of JustiFi, joins host William Glass to discuss how processing payments can drive revenue. Previously, Joe built a successful business connecting college athletes and students to families seeking highly skilled nannies and tutors. As the business shifted to a SaaS model, Joe was frustrated with how much he was paying in payment processing fees. Which led Joe to found JustiFi which arbitrages payment processing options to ensure SaaS marketplaces can process transactions more efficiently. 

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About Joe Keeley:

Joe Keeley is a dynamic, yet thoughtful entrepreneur and conscious leader. As such, Keeley is the CEO and Co-founder of JustiFi Technologies, a venture-backed fintech business providing payments and fintech infrastructure and strategy for vertical SaaS platforms. JustiFi exists to accelerate the potential of vertical SaaS platforms by bringing optimized embedded payments and beyond payments fintech solutions to bear resulting in increased value for the platform of 3-5X with a remarkably lower cost of ownership.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekeeley

https://www.justifi.ai/

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