From Bedroom Startup to Global Brand: How I Built Foundr & Sold an Ecomm Business with Nathan Chan

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Nathan Chan is the founder of Foundr, an entrepreneurial education platform that's helped 4M+ entrepreneurs globally. Interviewed 100+ business icons like Branson and Huffington. Built and sold an ecommerce brand from scratch.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. You don't need connections or experience to succeed. You need obsession, grit, and resourcefulness.

2. A great product that solves a real problem markets itself.

3. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Find people who've solved your problem and learn from them.

Check out Nathan's website and get a 14-day trial for $1 - Foundr

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire,
0:07.9	brought to you by high level, the all in one sales and marketing platform. Today we'll be
0:12.6	breaking down from bedroom startup to global brands to drop these value bombs that I brought
0:16.7	Nathan Chan into EO Fire Studios. Nathan is the founder of Founder, an entrepreneurial education
0:21.8	platform that sells 4 million plus entrepreneurs globally. He's interviewed over 100 business icons
0:26.2	like Richard Branson, and he's built and sold an e-commerce brand from scratch. And today
0:30.7	we'll talk about how he pulled that off, how he landed Richard Branson as his first interview,
0:35.3	how to scale and exit a business and the biggest mistakes that e-commerce founders make
0:39.8	and owe so much more.
0:41.2	And the big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Nathan and our sponsors.
0:46.0	Stop duct taping your business together.
0:48.3	High level runs your website, your funnels, email, automation, scheduling, payments,
0:51.7	and memberships all in one place.
0:53.6	And when you sign up at high level fire.com, you get a 30-day free trial, plus my exclusive
0:58.8	bonus stack that includes weekly office hours with me and much more.
1:02.5	Visit high-level fire.com.
1:05.2	High-level fire.com.
1:08.1	Fire Nation, are you ready to build something special in the next 50 days?
1:12.8	Check out my free YouTube series, 50 Days to Something.
1:16.8	Short and strategic step-by-step videos by me, JLD.
1:20.4	On day 50, you'll have a valuable asset.
1:23.1	And the best part is it's completely free.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Lee Dumas, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Lee Dumas and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.