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Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

Founder Focus Ep 2: Kim Hansen of Cake Equity

Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

Tribe Global Ventures

Business:investing, Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5.01 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Based in Queensland Australia, Cake Equity https://www.cakeequity.com/ supports entrepreneurs all over the world in using their  equity to attract and retain the best people, and make the capital raising and cap table management process, well, a piece of Cake! Full disclosure- Tribe Global Ventures has an investment in Cake, and is excited to be on the journey with Kim, Jason and their team. You'll see from this episode just how passionate the team at Cake are in supporting entrepreneurs. Kim shares the Cake the origin story and provides some inciteful ideas around: The double-edged sword of founder led sales. The importance of being in country when you scale. The value of complementary Co-Founders. How to navigate constructive conflict to catalyse growth. The importance of diversity, and trust and respect in fostering constructive conflict. The challenge of ego and loneliness in the entrepreneurial journey. Habits and routines for personal success, and tools Kim finds helpful in creating the best version of that success. Cake was also recently recognised in the 2023 Product Led Growth Rising 40 Awards, and Kim shares his thoughts on Product Lead Growth as a strategy, and how the team at Cake is approaching it.   Here is the link to the Product Hunt campaign Kim mentions- we would love for you to sign up (if you haven't already) and rally anyone else that wants to support Cake to do the same 🙏  https://www.producthunt.com/products/cake-equity  Kim on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimhansencake/  Jason on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasona-cake/  To get in contact with Tribe: Web: https://tribeglobal.vc/  Email: hello@tribeglobal.vc  Aaron: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronbirkby/  Elaine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainestead/ Don: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domckenzie/  Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbutler4/   If you liked this episode, we would love it if you could leave a comment and a rating.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Transparent VC podcast by Tribe Global Ventures. I'm Don McKenzie. In this episode,

0:16.4

Aaron, Elaine and I were joined by Kim Hansen, CEO and co-founder of Cake Equity.

0:22.0

Based in Queensland Australia, Cake Equity supports entrepreneurs all over the world in using

0:26.6

their equity to attract and retain the best people and make the capital raising and cap table

0:31.5

management process well a piece of cake.

0:34.6

Now full disclosure, Tribe Global Ventures has an investment in cake and is excited to

0:38.8

be on the journey with Kim, Jason and their team. Kim shares the cake origin story of he and

0:44.2

his co-founder Jason and provides some insightful ideas around the double-edged sword of founder-led

0:50.1

sales, the importance of being in-country when you scale, the value of complementary co-founders,

0:56.2

how to navigate constructive conflict to catalyze growth, the importance of diversity and trust

1:01.5

and respect in fostering constructive conflict, the challenges of ego and loneliness in the

1:07.0

entrepreneurial journey, and Kim shares some habits and routines for personal success

1:11.2

and some tools he finds helpful in creating the best version of success.

1:16.6

Cake was also recently recognized in the 2003 product-led growth rising 40 awards

1:23.6

and Kim shares his view on product-led growth as a strategy and how the team at cake approached it.

1:29.3

We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed the conversation with Kim.

1:38.3

Hey Kim, thanks for joining us today. How I am?

1:43.3

I'm good. Thanks. Thanks for inviting me for this done. Good to see you, Aaron. Good to see you, Elaine.

1:48.0

Kim, what is cake?

1:50.0

And what's the good?

1:52.0

Yeah. So, well, first of all, Jason and I, my co-found and I was super passionate about helping entrepreneurship and startup teams and founders.

2:02.1

So that's always been what we wake up to do every single day.

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