Playback: CEO at 22

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Society & Culture, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Raising $1m in venture capital whilst still at Uni; starting a business seemed like child's play for James Routledge. His start-up attracted 50m page views per month, and his investors believed he could be the next Mark Zuckerberg. Except, beneath the surface, he felt stressed, isolated and alone - and his business was burning £30,000 per month. In this honest and compelling interview with Olly, he explains what happened next. This interview first aired in 2017 . Now remastered and with an update on Sanctus, we've paired this episode with Veganuary - Planting The Seed. Listen now - and if you have an episode from our past you'd like to recommend, let us know at modernmann.co.uk/feedback James is co-founder of mental health start-up Sanctus. Read the blog-post that started it all here, and sign up to their weekly newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So retrospectors, what historical events are we ticking off on this week's run of today in history?
0:05.0	On Monday, the anniversary of the day, Ozzy Osbourne and a bat came face to face on stage.
0:10.0	On Tuesday, we go back to the future with a potted history of the DeLorean.
0:14.0	On Wednesday, why is the Pope guarded by those guys in floofy hats?
0:19.0	On Thursday, how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ended up in Cleveland.
0:23.0	And on Friday, was Henry VIII really an asshole, or was it just the result of a jasting accident?
0:28.3	We discussed this and more on today in history with the retrospectors.
0:31.9	10 minutes each weekday, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.2	Hello, Man fans, Oli Man here with a brand new strand on the podcast feed that we're
0:41.0	calling Playback.
0:42.7	On the last Friday of every month, we're going to bring you an oldie but a goodie,
0:46.6	a replay of one of our middle features that you may not have heard before, but we think
0:51.0	is worth your time.
0:52.5	Because I've now had over 130 conversations on this
0:56.8	podcast with amazing people and have heard some really prescient stories from them about the
1:02.6	modern world. So we just wanted to take the chance to spotlight some of the best ones
1:07.2	from our archive to give you another chance to hear them. And what we're going to try and do
1:12.1	with this series is each month we're going to thematically pair our playback episode with our
1:18.0	middle feature you've just heard. So in January 2024, as you'll know if you've heard our latest
1:22.7	episode, I've been speaking to Jane and Matthew who set up Vigannuary, and their stories of servers crashing
1:29.9	and midnight binges on Google Analytics and their general startup journey reminded us of our
1:36.9	episode from February 2017, CEO at 22. As you'll hear, back then, references to Facebook, fast company and tech crunch
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