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Founder's Journal

Preparing for Acquisition w/ Our Future

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Episode 16: Michael Sikand (@michaelsikand) and Simran Sandhu (@_simmy_) share the story of how they started Our Future, the #1 source of business for GenZ. After building a massive following on TikTok and garnering millions of views on their short-form explainers, they were acquired by Morning Brew. But post-acquisition life only brought a new set of challenges. Learn about the considerations and consequences of selling your business from these young and talented entrepreneurs. Timestamps: (03:01): Intro (09:58): Attracting investors (13:55): Managing expectations (17:32): Unlocking synergies with your new partner Links: Our Future Podcast Our Future IG Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about Shopify here: https://shopify.com/crazyones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone Alex here with another episode of Founders Journal your number one source for all things

0:06.0

Entrepreneurship and business building a couple of weeks ago

0:09.4

I had Nick Huber come on to the podcast as the first ever guest Founders Journal if you haven't listened to that episode yet

0:16.1

Go check it out now or after you've listened to this episode doesn't matter when all I know is a lot of people

0:22.3

E-mailed me basically saying that it was incredible Nick talked about his rise from starting a service business in college

0:29.2

To buying his first self-storage property now having a hundred fifty million dollars worth of self-storage while also owning 10 cash flowing businesses

0:37.1

I got so many emails from listeners saying how much they like this episode so much so that they want to get

0:43.2

Guest the episodes in just the constant flow of this show

0:47.4

Sort of makes me wonder if y'all are just tired of hearing my voice, but in all seriousness

0:51.9

I think these guest journals are gonna be such a core part of Founders Journal because I'm not an expert on everything

0:57.9

But I have access to a lot of experts and so I would love for them to tell their stories and share their lessons as well

1:04.4

Anyways, today I'm bringing on another guest actually guests a dynamic duo within the Morning Brew universe

1:12.2

Michael Sikand and Simran Sandu they are the Founders of our future

1:17.0

A media company that covers all things business for Gen Z and these two guys are absolutely crushing it our future specializes in short form

1:26.0

Video content that breaks down businesses entrepreneurship finance tech you name it and they are

1:32.5

Honestly, how I view Austin and myself just eight years earlier. They are hungry. They are on the cutting edge of media

1:38.9

They know more about media for Gen Z then basically anyone else I know and

1:43.6

They're already near a million subscribers across Instagram TikTok and YouTube and they're just getting started

1:49.8

In addition to all of this content they've already created

1:52.8

They're launching their own podcast and it's called our future podcast

1:56.8

It's basically the most important strategies tactics and tips from the best Gen Z entrepreneurs on planet earth

2:03.8

Make sure to follow it and subscribe to hear more of those stories

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