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Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Acquiring a Founder's Mentality with MediaKits CEO Kieran O’Brien

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 183: Are you ready to enter the mind of a serial entrepreneur? This week, Natalie sits down with MediaKits co-founder, Kieran O’Brien, to pick his brain and take notes on all he’s learned through his entrepreneurial journey thus far. As the founder of five businesses (and counting) before the age of 23, Kieran has all kinds of wisdom, insights, and tools to share, and on today’s episode, he doesn’t gate keep any of it. So, tune in, whip out your note pad, and gear up for invaluable tips on fundraising, budgeting, networking, believing in your vision, and just plain winging it. Today’s episode dives into: The benefits of having a co-founder/business partner and why business plans are overrated The current and future state of the creator economy How MediaKits came to be The importance of a tight fundraising process and budget allocation Networking and making the most of your connections Lessons learned in the start-up process Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow @kieranobrien and check out mediakits.com. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: SHOPIFY – Go to shopify.com/realreel to start your FREE trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

0:04.0

Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of

0:16.0

entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

0:20.6

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.

0:26.0

Hi everybody welcome back to the real real podcast with me Natalie Barboo.

0:31.0

Today's episode is a very exciting one because I selfishly got to

0:36.3

ask a lot of questions. Today we have on Kiran and Kiran O'Brien is the

0:41.7

founder or co-founder of Media Kitts,

0:44.6

which if you're a creator, you've probably seen them before.

0:47.8

They were the first Media Kit,

0:50.3

like automatic Media Kit online online and they started about a year and a half ago or two years ago pretty much almost two years ago that they started had the idea in 2017 launched two years ago because they had like come back to the idea and now they are

1:06.5

getting acquired which if you don't know what that means it just means that another company has bought them so

1:10.9

viral nation has acquired them, which is really cool to see after such a short amount of time.

1:18.0

I think it was after 11 months of launching, they were acquired already, which is insane. And honestly just shows like how quickly

1:27.0

the creator economy is moving and growing. So this episode if you are interested in starting a business and how to set up for

1:33.9

success then this episode is definitely for you if you're interested in

1:36.9

startups and tech anything like that like I asked him all the questions that

1:41.4

I wanted to know personally as the founder of

1:43.5

Rella and also questions that I think that you guys would find really

1:46.1

interesting and hopefully inspiring to have really go after what you want to do.

1:49.2

Kiran is a serial entrepreneur. He started five companies already. He's young he's in his early

1:54.2

20s already gotten acquired, has had companies that were making you know millions in

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