🎙️Your success breaks your systems. The things that worked at 5 people? Useless at 50. Benjamin Fernandes breaks it down in this episode—and trust us, you’ll want to prep before it hits. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

🎙️When payments fail, customers don’t care if it’s your aggregator’s fault. They blame you. And if you don’t own that? They leave.🚶🏽 Benjamin drops the brutal truth on brand responsibility. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

🎙️Scaling globally? Great. Now meet your biggest threat: compliance. Every country has its own landmines. Slip up, and growth turns into chaos. Benjamin shares how to stay ahead. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

Not every morning routine starts with coffee. Benjamin starts with prayer, wisdom, and a one-page devotion. It’s not just a ritual. It’s the foundation of how he leads a $50M+ startup.🙏 Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

⌛️Five years later, same job, same “I’ll start soon” story. Benjamin Fernandes says the real startup killer isn’t failure—it’s waiting for perfect timing that doesn’t exist. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

From a WhatsApp experiment to 7M users. Tessa Clarke proved that tackling food waste can be both groundbreaking & scalable. If you’re chasing purpose+profit, this episode is your blueprint. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

TWO things almost stopped her from becoming a founder: no idea and no belief she could actually do it. What felt “inaccessible” at the time is now a 7M-user app tackling food waste worldwide. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

Founders, stop obsessing over the big leap. Tessa says building a startup feels more like: Wake up. Get punched in the face. Sleep. Repeat. Learn how persistence built a 7M-user movement. ✨ Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

Even a brilliant solution to a massive problem doesn’t scale overnight. This episode shows Tessa Clarke’s reality check and how it became the mindset shift that helped OLIO grow to 7M+ users. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

🎙️Founders talk a lot about scale, exits, and valuations. But what if the real edge is purpose? Tessa Clarke shares two powerful reasons why building with impact changes everything. ✨ Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

🎙️Founders, raising prices once customers are anchored is hard—especially if competitors undercut you. Tessa Clarke shares her golden tip on navigating price strategy.✨ Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

🎙️At 20, Benjamin Fernandes started at Stanford. While Riham Satti tripped into entrepreneurship by accident. Different stories, same outcome: multi-million-dollar founders. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

He went to med school to become a surgeon. But Ivan realized the real problem wasn’t in the operating room, it was the system itself. So he dropped out and built a health tech startup instead. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

🎙️From McKinsey to $70M with an AI-powered pet insurance startup, she built Lassie from a personal frustration, and turned “boring insurance” into an emotional, tech-driven rocket ship.🚀 Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

💡Your idea isn’t the gold mine — your execution is. Talk about it. Get feedback. Build faster. That’s how Hedda turned coffee chats into a $70M empire. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

🎙️“We started seeing names in our CRM we didn’t even know.” That’s when Hedda Båverud Olsson realized Lassie’s launch had gone viral. No ads. Just product, trust, and timing. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

From record labels to Fenty-style brands, David Olusegun is building celebrity startups with substance. He shares why the next billion-dollar brand won’t be influencer-made—it’ll be founder-built. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io W/ Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

This week on The Startup Leap, David Olusegun explains how purpose and authenticity made Fenty Beauty a billion-dollar blueprint — and what founders can learn from it. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Maria Rotilu & Yvonne Bajela

🚀Scaling is a science, not a solo act. David Olusegun’s #1 tip: get your ops and finance in check, then get help. Doing it all might start your brand — but it won’t scale it. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

You’ve built the following. Now build the brand. David Olusegun explains how creators can turn personal influence into product-based businesses without losing authenticity. Subscribe to our newsletter: subscribe.thestartupleap.io With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu