The Everyday Founder

The Everyday Founder

Welcome to the everyday founder podcast with James Farnfield 👋🏽James chats with everyday founders and ask them questions across a range of serious and lighthearted topics.It’s time that we celebrate those everyday founders doing incredible things. Celebrating their successes, learning from their jou...

Recent Episodes

Nov. 19, 2025

How She Turned a Crowded Tube Ride into a Deep Tech Startup (and Nearly Lost It All) | Dash Tabor

What if your business could predict the future — even with barely any data? In this episode, I sit down with Dash Tabor, founder and CEO of TUBR, a predictive analytics platform turning small data into big insights. Dash star...
Nov. 12, 2025

He Sold His Startup to Twitter. Now He’s Building AI That Codes | Tomas Halgas

In this episode of The Everyday Founder, James sits down with Tomas Helgaš, founder and CEO of Sutro — the AI platform that turns a single text prompt into a full production-ready app. Before Sutro, Tomas worked at Facebook (...
Oct. 22, 2025

She Quit Her Oxford PhD to Build an AI Company Tackling Bias in Hiring | Riham Satti

Riham Satti was on track for a life in academia — Oxford PhD, research papers, professorship. Then she met her co-founder, built an app to get him a job at Microsoft, and accidentally uncovered a billion-dollar problem: human...
Oct. 2, 2025

The Future of Real-World Asset Tokenization Explained Simply | Florian Ehrbar

Florian Ehrbar, founder of OnchainLabs, went from calling time on a failing consulting gig… to convincing the investor to back a new team and a new idea: connecting real-world assets (skis, classic cars, gold - even trees) to...
Sept. 24, 2025

From RAF Pilot to Deep Tech Founder: Building the Trust Layer for Autonomy at SAIF | Kyle Thomas

Former RAF pilot turned deep-tech founder, Kyle Thomas is building SAIF Autonomy—the “application firewall” for autonomous systems. We get into embodied AI vs deterministic autonomy, what it takes to certify and deploy robots...
Sept. 10, 2025

How This Exited Founder Raised $1.5M from 66 Angels to Launch Insurtech Loxa | Jamie Hamer

What does it take to raise $1.5M from 66 angels across 400 meetings? Jamie Hamer, CEO of Loxa and founder of React News (acquired by Green Street), shares the unfiltered reality. From walking away from a ÂŁ150k salary to makin...