Taking Your Startup Public with Thomas Healy

Entrepreneurs on Fire

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Healy is the Founder and CEO of Hyliion, a provider of innovative generator technology to produce clean, efficient and affordable electricity. As an entrepreneur, he has founded two start-ups prior to Hyliion while he was in college and holds over twenty patents.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. A lot of people think success is monetary-driven but for some entrepreneurs, it is changing the world and creating multigenerational companies that has a positive impact in the society.

2. Companies are trapped into doing the easiest which is to keep doing what you have been doing but that is the actually the most risky.

3. Just get started. So many people come to analysis paralysis but you can’t predict what is going to happen tomorrow. Until you become committed and an expert in the space, you can’t map out the trajectory even if you are an expert to it.

Powering a cleaner future. Check their website to join their company or to invest in them - Hyliion

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0:00.0	Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, the only
0:07.2	daily show interviewing the world's top entrepreneurs seven days a week. Today we'll be breaking
0:11.3	down, taking your startup public to drop these value bombs. I brought to Thomas Healy and the
0:16.1	Eofire Studios. Thomas is the founder and CEO of Hileon, a provider of innovative generator technology
0:21.6	to produce clean, efficient, and affordable electricity.
0:24.6	As an entrepreneur, he has founded two startups prior to Hylion and holds over 20 patents.
0:29.6	Today we'll talk about the startup journey, Forbes 30 under 30, youngest billionaire, challenges,
0:34.9	struggles, and oh, so much more.
0:38.7	And a big thing for sponsoring our episode goes to Thomas and our sponsors.
0:42.2	Over 41,000 businesses have future-proved their business with NetSuite by Oracle, the number
0:48.6	one cloud ERP, bringing accounting, financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform.
0:53.9	Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at netsuite.com slash fire.
1:01.8	Thomas, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful
1:08.4	that most people disagree with.
1:11.8	I think a lot of people think what drives entrepreneurs is the financial opportunity of where
1:17.2	the company is heading. I disagree that. I think if you're going after one of these more
1:21.9	risky startups where you're really going out to change the world, make a difference in
1:26.5	society, I think for that entrepreneur, there needs to be something different that drives you. I know you're really going out to change the world, make a difference in society.
1:31.2	I think for that entrepreneur, there needs to be something different that drives you.
1:37.5	I know for me, it's more about changing the world, creating a hopefully multi-generational company,
1:42.4	something that can have a positive impact on society, on climate change.
1:46.1	That's really the driver versus I think a lot of people think it's monetary driven. And I don't think that's the case for many of the entrepreneurs out there.
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