The Curious Cult
By Nic Haralambous
Curious people lead the charge in changing the world.
Change the way you think. Change the way you live. Change the way your business operates.
Embrace the curiosity advantage by listening to the most curious people in the world talk about their journey.
The Curious CultMay 19, 2020
Rebelion and curiosity go hand in hand - Greig Jansen
Greig is the founder of PURA Soda. In this episode, we discuss curiosity as a matter of nature or nurture, how creating the future is the best way to predict it, how curiosity is like a muscle, once you start you get better at it and become more curious about more things and how PURA pushes a curious corporate culture.
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Nic Haralambous is a professional speaker, obsessive entrepreneur and bestselling author.
He has sold three businesses in the past decade and has many lessons learned through failure and success over an intense and exciting twenty-year obsession as an entrepreneur.
His work focuses on helping people start and build incredible businesses.
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Nic’s books:
How to Start a Side Hustle
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat
Becoming an upcycled human being - Jasper Eales
Jasper is the founder of Sealand and considers himself to be an upcycled human being through a liver transplant. In this episode Nic and Jasper discuss building a truly purpose-driven lifestyle brand, becoming an aspirational brand with an educational voice, how initially, all curiosity needs to be explored but then you need to follow the excitement and how a mistake is only a mistake if you repeat it.
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Nic Haralambous is a professional speaker, obsessive entrepreneur and bestselling author.
He has sold three businesses in the past decade and has many lessons learned through failure and success over an intense and exciting twenty-year obsession as an entrepreneur.
His work focuses on helping people start and build incredible businesses.
Subscribe for more content from Nic:
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Nic’s books:
How to Start a Side Hustle
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat
TV is a trauma response and how to be more curious - Leana de Beer
Leana de Beer is a social entrepreneur and the CEO of Feenix.org. In this episode we discuss hiring for diversity, taking a step back and letting other people speak first, the trauma response that is watching television how the pursuit of excellence can be exhausting.
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Why you should need a license to nap - Dale Rae on sleep cycles, the curiosity muscle and quality sleep
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Nic is the obsessively curious host of the Curious Cult podcast. He is an accomplished startup entrepreneur, global keynote speaker and bestselling author.
Described as "authentic, incredibly knowledgeable about innovation and inspiring", Nic has devoted his life to building high-impact businesses.
His work focuses on helping people build incredible lives and businesses. He has sold three businesses in the past decade and has a lifetime of startup lessons learned through failure and success over an intense and exciting twenty-year career as an entrepreneur.
Nic is the author of the best-selling book, How to Start a Side Hustle and Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat.
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Website: www.nharry.com
Online Academy: academy.slowhustle.org
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Twitter: twitter.com/nicharry
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haralambous
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Nic’s books:
How to Start a Side Hustle: nicharalambous.com/how-to-start-a-side-hustle-book
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat: www.amazon.com/Do-Fail-Learn-Repeat-Businesses-ebook/dp/B07DVNX5L2
Ideas are often born out of frustration - Shannon Esra on acting, thinking, living and love
Shannon Esra is an actor and deep thinker. Watch her latest show on Showmax right now!
Follow Shannon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShannonEsra
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Nic is the obsessively curious host of the Curious Cult podcast. He is an accomplished startup entrepreneur, global keynote speaker and bestselling author.
Described as "authentic, incredibly knowledgeable about innovation and inspiring", Nic has devoted his life to building high-impact businesses.
His work focuses on helping people build incredible lives and businesses. He has sold three businesses in the past decade and has a lifetime of startup lessons learned through failure and success over an intense and exciting twenty-year career as an entrepreneur.
Nic is the author of the best-selling book, How to Start a Side Hustle and Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat.
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Website: www.nharry.com
Online Academy: academy.slowhustle.org
Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/curious-cult/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicisms/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-haralambous-global-speaker-entrepreneur/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicharry
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haralambous
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Nic’s books:
How to Start a Side Hustle: https://nicharalambous.com/how-to-start-a-side-hustle-book
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat: https://www.amazon.com/Do-Fail-Learn-Repeat-Businesses-ebook/dp/B07DVNX5L2
Constraints create curiosity - Yossi Hasson on NFTs, the WHO that defines your life and more
Yossi Hasson is a tech entrepreneur and investor who has his mind on all things new, innovative and bleeding edge including crypto and NFTs.
Sign up for his newsletter: https://yossihasson.substack.com/
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Nic is the host of the Curious Cult. He is an accomplished startup entrepreneur, global keynote speaker and bestselling author.
Described as "authentic, incredibly knowledgeable about innovation and inspiring", Nic has devoted his life to building high-impact businesses.
His work focuses on helping people build incredible lives and businesses. He has sold three businesses in the past decade and has a lifetime of startup lessons learned through failure and success over an intense and exciting twenty-year career as an entrepreneur.
Nic is the author of the best-selling book, How to Start a Side Hustle and Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat.
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Website: www.nharry.com
Online Academy: academy.slowhustle.org
Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/curious-cult/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicisms/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-haralambous-global-speaker-entrepreneur/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicharry
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haralambous
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Nic’s books:
How to Start a Side Hustle: https://nicharalambous.com/how-to-start-a-side-hustle-book
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat: https://www.amazon.com/Do-Fail-Learn-Repeat-Businesses-ebook/dp/B07DVNX5L2
Nik Rabinowitz - How to be a happy comedian and what to do about the ego
In this episode of the Curious Cult, I have a fantastic chat with Nik Rabinowitz about how he got into the world of comedy, his relationship with comparison and dealing with the ego.
Nik is a full-time stand-up comedian, a part-time sit-down comedian (thanks to Zoom and online comedy shows), a parent of three, and an all-round fascinating human.
To keep updated on Nik’s movements, catch him on LinkedIn, on Twitter and on Instagram. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it far and wide and let’s start changing the world with curiosity.
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Michael Smollan - Purpose-driven business and globalising a world view
In this episode of the Curious Cult, I am excited to chat with Michael Smollan about how living in Shanghai changed his life, how working in the family business has made him more hungry for curiosity and how making sure a business operates according to the purpose is crucial.
Mike is the Chief Growth & Innovation Officer of the Smollan Group, he heads up marketing, growth, and innovation in the firm after growing up in operations. With offices across 56 different countries in the world, one of the core focuses of the Smollan Group is to help improve lives and reduce their environmental impact.
For more information or to chat with Mike, find him on LinkedIn and check out the purpose story of the Smollan Group. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it far and wide and let’s start changing the world with curiosity.
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Alexandria Procter - Identity, layers of curiosity, & creating things
In this episode of the Curious Cult, I am excited to chat with Alexandria Procter about identity, vertical and horizontal curiosity and a whole host of other topics to inspire starting something.
Alex is the founder of DigsConnect, a company that connects landlords and tenants in a secure, vetted way. Alex is a self-declared loud-mouth who challenges the status quo in what identity means but is deeply passionate about her work and loves creating and building things.
For more information or to chat with Alex, find her on LinkedIn or check out DigsConnect. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it far and wide and let’s start changing the world with curiosity.
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Mike Scott - The challenging necessity of cultivating feedback
In the first episode of season 3 of the Curious Cult, I am thrilled to chat with Mike Scott about why curiosity can be difficult but how it can help you evolve, why design by committee is bad but consensus can work and a whole bunch of other exciting topics.
Mike is the co-founder of NONA, a firm that builds intuitive software for companies across the world. Mike believes strongly in habit-optimisation and is obsessed with learning and consuming knowledge.
For more information or to chat with Mike, find him on LinkedIn or check out Nona. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it far and wide and let’s start changing the world with curiosity.
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Sam Beckbessinger - Creative Curiosity and Exploiting Unique Craziness
In this episode, I chat with one of my closest friends and best-selling author Sam Beckbessinger about working through a lack of inspiration, harnessing unique personality flavours and why consistency is so crucial for output in a creative space.
On a quest to find out “how to adult”, Sam writes by trade and follows her curiosity, recording interesting things obsessively in her pen-and-paper notebook and exploring them later through her writing. From writing to entrepreneurship to enabling and tapping into her own flair and intrigues, Sam has a unique take on work titles, self-improvement and work ethic as a professional creative.
If you want to get in touch with Sam, you can find her on Like A Fucking Grownup.com or her personal website where she follows her curiosity “hang out with her” through her newsletter.
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Rob Hope - Freedom as Success
In this episode, I catch up with Rob Hope, a Cape Town-based multi-talented digital maker who goes by many labels from designer to developer to a casual surfer. With an aim is to fill his day with things which inspire him, Rob opts to take on things which challenge or offer enjoyment (like surfing).
In his career, Rob has found that when he was most comfortable in his career, he wasn’t challenging himself. It's “a very dangerous place to be” - Rob points to too much security in business or life is a “safe zone” which indicates a number of red flags. So, he started a Youtube show, which he claims as the hardest thing he has done in his life.
If you want to get in touch with Rob or find out more about his journey succeeding through failure, check out his website or find him on Twitter.
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Natalie Nagele - Shifting the Focus from Business to People
In this episode, I chat with Natalie Nagele, co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a company which puts people at the forefront of businesses.
With 20 years running the company, has a wealth of experience in starting things and learning along the way. She and Wldbit are shifting the focus in business: Prioritising people and developing a business culture to support individuals and promote healthy work habits.
If you want to get in touch with Natalie or find out more about Wildbit’s new brand which has a tremendous amount of content about starting a business, on Twitter, or head to Wildbit’s website.
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Kyle Redelinghuys - The Art of Starting, Scaling, and Satiating Curiosity
In this episode, I chat with Kyle Redelinghuys about how he manages to stay on top of four business ventures while maintaining a relationship and still has time to exercise at the end of the day. The perfect advocate for starting things, Kyle offers a wealth of knowledge about how to scale businesses sustainably.
If you want to get in touch with Kyle or find out more Covid19 API, find him on his website, Twitter, or check out Covid19 API.
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Ory Okolloh - Intellectual Curiosity & Challenging the Status Quo
In this episode, I chat with Kenyan activist Ory Okolloh, who has an active sense of chasing curiosity with an appetite to see social change in the African landscape.
With the social development in Africa a strong driving force in her professional pursuits, Ory is one of the founding members of Ushahidi, a non-profit open-source software application designed to help give a voice to marginalised people.
If you want to get in touch with Ory, you can find her on LinkedIn or catch up with her on Twitter.
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Bob Skinstad - Focus, Commitment and The Power of Choice
In this episode, I catch up with former professional rugby player Bob Skinstad who played for the Springboks. In addition to his time on the pitch, Bob also has a wealth of experience in the field of business and investments.
From Stellenbosch University, Bob spent twelve years playing professional sport internationally. During his sporting career, he had a number of investments and co-investments which trajected his interest in the world business and entrepreneurship. He dabbled in a corporate role to learn the formal side of business, “learning how to dot the i’s and cross the t’s” and managed his own portfolio of investments. He is now a partner for investment capital management firm Knife Capital and is a venture partner for a family office in the United Kingdom.
If you want to get in touch with Bob or find out more about what his venture capital endeavours, find him on LinkedIn, on Twitter, or check out Knife Capital.
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Tashmia Ismail - Avid curiosity and combatting inequality
In this episode, I chat with Tashmia Ismail who has built models to combat inequality and social injustice. Born in South Africa, a remarkably fascinating but unequal country in career opportunities and the job market, Tash has an avid curiosity about democratising access to the basic chances of employment available to young South Africans.
“I’m a big fan of two types of models. One is a Robin Hood model and the other is a platform model, both of which work well together. And the idea of working with people who have the resources and skills and hopefully can build empathy to build platforms to address some of these issues.”
You can find Tash on Twitter, or through the YES4Youth website.
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Vinny Lingham - Abundant thinking for entrepreneurs
In this episode, I chat with Vinny Lingham about his time spent working in a corporate career and how it acted as a stepping stone to entrepreneurship. With a hunger for knowledge and an appreciation for information, Vinny is a massive advocate for skill-building experience and it’s evident in the way he talks about work and career opportunities.
Hailing from East London in South Africa, he spent time in the corporate world before branching out to start his own companies. After building his first businesses, a search engine marketing platform in 2003 and incubators in South Africa, he moved to Silicon Valley to build up more tech entrepreneur experience. In 2015, Vinny started Civic, an identity platform, which is his current focus to develop to adapt in the COVID-shaken world.
You can find Vinny on Twitter, or through his website.
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Mike Joubert - Moving from corporate to entrepreneurship
In this episode, I chat with Mike Joubert who has had a thirty-year corporate career working with brands across the world. After moving from corporate to entrepreneurship, Mike started and sold his own successful business in 2009. From there, with the love of developing companies and people, he has spent his time investing in businesses in South Africa.
From overcoming the fear of moving abroad, having the courage to turn curiosity into experimentation in the corporate companies, and starting his own business with amazing success, Mike has a wealth of business experience.
Combatting the fear of Starting Something and growing from itDuring his early career, twice Mike was offered the chance to move abroad to head up teams in Amsterdam and the United Kingdom and twice he turned the opportunity down. He pegged the reason down to one thing: He was too nervous to leave his family and support and step out into the unknown. The people he knew and loved were based in South Africa, and he was concerned about the move from comfort. When the third chance to move and work overseas came from Levi’s, he couldn’t say no.
“I had the same doubts, but I thought that I was not going to get a fourth chance. I made the leap, and you know what, it turned out spectacularly. Not only was it a great opportunity and added some real value to the business but as a human being, I just grew.”
If you want to get in touch with Mike or see what he’s up to in the world of business building, find him on LinkedIn, on Twitter.
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Dr Adrian Saville - Starting an Asset Management Firm
In his early 20s, Adrian took his skillset in investment and economics and started something. Worried about job prospects out of university, and with the support of his friends who had investable assets, he was encouraged to share his expertise in economics which quickly became a useful tool, resulting in an investment club.
“I had growing anxiety and suspicions that I was turning myself into very well qualified, but unemployable.”
Once a month, the club would meet, talk about markets, economies, ideas and build an investment pool. The main idea was to “hopefully make some money” from the investment.
Within two years, the club had made some neat returns, gained some external attention and had expanded from 12 friends to 200 members with investments in the pool. Without intention, his business had grown from an informal arrangement to a licensed form.
“What it showed me is that what you dream is possible.”
If you want to get in touch with Adrian or see what he’s up to in the world of business building and economics, find him on LinkedIn, on Twitter, through the GIBS Business School or through his asset management firm Cannon Assets.
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Curiously Quarantied with Jarette Petzer
Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Jarette Petzer.
Curiously Quarantined with Xola Nouse
Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Xola Nouse.
Curiously Quarantined with Heather Moore
Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Heather Moore.
Curiously Quarantined with Lebo Mokgabudi
Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Lebo Mokgabudi.
Unfortunately, the final part of this episode was cut off by a technical glitch with Crowdcast. Probably best not to use Crowdcast to record webinars.
Curiously Quarantined with Catherine Lückhoff
Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Catherine Lückhoff.
Curiously Quarantined with Joy Des Fountain
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Curiously Quarantined with David Perel
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Curiously Quarantined with Faheem Chaudhry
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Curiously Quarantined with Tim Harris
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Curiously Quarantined with Lars Veul
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Curiously Quarantined with Mike Sharman
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Curiously Quarantined with John Sanei
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Curiously Quarantined with Keet Van Zyl
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Curiously Quarantined - Introduction Episode
Welcome to the Curious Cult Show's Curiously Quarantined special edition episodes.
These were recorded over a period of 3 months during lockdown via live webinar with an audience and special guests from around the world.
Professional trail runner and coach, Megan Mackenzie on finding your north star (Ep. 15)
Megan Mackenzie is a professional trail runner and has won South African Long Distance Trail Championships in 2015, African X in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, Ultra Trail Cape Town 65km and others. She has also represented South Africa internationally at numerous events.
Her perspective on finding and maintain a direction in life is unique and insightful and our shared obsession with curiosity makes this a fantastic end to the first season of The Curious Cult show!
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David Perel, professional racing driver, CoachDave, SimGrid founder on curiosity and hard work (Ep. 14)
David Perel started his racing career at a very young age. He's had ups and downs, he's discovered a passion for real-life racing and found success there all the while progressing as a formidable sim racer. In this interview, David and I discuss his entrepreneurial spirit, what it takes to be the best at something, starting side hustles that become business, curiosity, hard work and sacrifice. A riveting conversation with an accomplished sportsperson and entrepreneur.
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BRCK.COM Co-founder, Erik Hersman on boredom, new words for failure (Ep. 13)
In this fascinating conversation, I talk with Erik Hersman, the co-founder of BRCK.COM, iHub and Ushahidi about:
Innovative ways to bring wifi to emerging markets in rugged conditions.
The business model of innovation.
How they bought a 4-letter domain.
How things work vs will this work type of curiosity.
New words for failure that we should use.
Tertiary education is nice but not necessary.
Rich Mulholland - on knowledge hunting vs gathering, comfort vs curiosity and starting to sell early (Ep. 12)
Rock and Roadie turned entrepreneur Richard Mulholland is the founder of presentation powerhouse Missing Link, as well as the co-founder of 21Tanks, HumanWrit.es and The Sales Department. He has written three books, Legacide, Boredom Slayer, and Good story, bro and is a global public speaker that in 2019 alone spoke in 26 countries on 6 continents )and to online audiences the world over). Mostly though, he's a husband, dad, brother, son and uncle.
In this episode we talk about adapting your skills to a changing world, how some people are knowledge hunters and others are knowledge gatherers and how comfort is the enemy of curiosity.
Lauren Beukes - on launching a novel about a pandemic, parents creating curiosity and more (Ep. 11)
Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling South African author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City and Afterland, among other works. Her novels have been published in 24 countries and are being adapted for film and TV. She’s also a comics writer, screenwriter, journalist and documentary maker.
In this episode, Lauren discusses her badass parents, her ability to engage her own kid's curiosity, what it's like to launch a novel about a global pandemic in the middle of a global pandemic (which was unplanned) and more.
Tinus Le Roux - Taking stadium-sized selfies and using AI (Ep. 10)
Tinus Le Roux is the CEO at Fancam. They take stadium-sized HD selfies that teams across the world use to engage their fans. Tinus has a unique experience and understanding of his curiosity and is one of South Africa's unsung entrepreneurial veterans.
Rob McGinnis - Turning C02 into fuel (Ep. 09)
In this episode, Rob McGinnis talks about his intense curiosity about turning C02 into fuel that we can use in our vehicles today. We discuss his storytelling ability, his theater background and how that helped him raise the funding he needed to change the world.
Rapelang Rabana - Leading African Entrepreneur on Reading, Lifelong Learning and Startups (Ep. 08)
Rapelang Rabana is one of Africa’s most impressive entrepreneurs. She was a curious child who grew into an obsessive entrepreneur. She read voraciously and turned her curiosity into the need to build solutions to big problems.
Apologies for the sound in this recording. I’ll do better next episode!
Zev Siegl - Starbucks Co-founder and small business expert (Ep. 07)
With over 50 years of startup experience and co-founding Starbucks, Zev Siegl was a "hyperactive" child who wanted to get the most out of life. He struggled to focus as a child but that trait has held him in good standing over the years.
He did not formally study business in any way but his interest in business came from close family and friends that bloomed into an obsession that gripped him for many decades.
Greg Smithies - Venture Capitalist on the climate crisis, lifelong learning and turning C02 into gasoline (Ep. 06)
Greg Smithies is currently a partner at BMW's i Ventures where he invests in Hardware, Software, and Sustainability applied to unsexy industries. Before i Ventures Greg headed Finance and Operations for both The Boring Company and Neuralink simultaneously; headed finance, sales, and business development for Versive; and was an early- and late-stage investor at Battery Ventures, an ~$8 Billion Venture Capital & Private Equity fund.
Husayn Kassai - Onfido CEO and Cofounder on lifelong learning and hiring for curiosity (Ep. 05)
Husayn is the Onfido CEO and Co-Founder.
Onfido helps businesses digitally onboard users by verifying any government ID and comparing it with the person’s facial biometrics. Founded in 2012, Onfido has grown to a team of 350 across SF, NYC and London; received over $100m in funding from Salesforce, Microsoft and others; and works with over 1,500 fintech, banking and marketplace clients globally.
Husayn is a WEF Tech Pioneer; a Forbes Contributor; and Forbes' “30 Under 30”. He has a BA in Economics and Management from Keble College, Oxford.
Geraldine DeRuiter - James Beard Award-winning writer on familial curiosity and transporting grain in ships (Ep. 04)
Geraldine is an acclaimed author, world-renowned public speaker, and the voice behind the award-winning Everywhereist blog.
While ostensibly a travel writer, Geraldine also writes about dessert, feminism, and a variety of other riveting topics.
TIME Magazine described her work as “consistently clever” and The New York Times said her writing was “dark and hilarious”. Her blog has received accolades from The Independent, Forbes Magazine, and The Huffington Post, because sometimes features editors get drunk.
When not on the road with her long-suffering and infinitely patient husband, Rand, Geraldine can be found in Seattle, usually fighting with people on the internet.
Rand Fishkin - Sparktoro and Moz founder on risotto, frogs and building a new kind of business (Ep. 03)
In 2004, Rand co-founded the SEO software company, Moz, where he served as CEO until 2014. In 2018, He founded SparkToro, making software to put audience intelligence at every marketer's fingertips.
He is the author of the incredible book, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World and is a frequent keynote speaker on marketing and entrepreneurship topics around the world.
In his spare time, he likes to travel, eat pasta and hang out with his wife, renowned author Geraldine DeRuiter - who is one of our next guests on the Curious Cult Podcast. I’m very excited to be talking to Rand today!
Mmusi Maimane - South African politician on race and the value of exploration (Ep. 02)
Born in Soweto, Mmusi Maimane is a South African politician and the former leader of the DA, the main opposition party in South Africa.
He speaks 8 of South Africa’s 11 national languages and is a pastor and leader in the Liberty church. He has masters degrees in Economics and Theology and is currently reading for his PHD in economic development in local government.
Trip Hawkins - Electronic Arts founder on Dungeons & Dragons and the state of the world (Ep. 01)
Trip Hawkins is an incredibly accomplished entrepreneur who has a vast breadth of skills and depth of experience. He is the founder and first CEO of Electronic Arts, was crowned “King of the Nerds” by the Economist, he designed, produced and marketed his first game while still a teenager and at that young age mapped out a 10-year plan that lead him to found Electronic Arts.
A CEO for 33 years in four global companies, and an advisor to many other CEOs, Trip believes that success is only in part about how far we rise.
The Curious Cult Show - TRAILER!
Welcome to the Curious Cult.
The show where I talk to incredible people about their fascinating curiosity.
I'm your host, Nic Haralambous and I am an obsessively curious entrepreneur and author.
I can't wait to share the incredible stories that I've uncovered by talking to people like the founder of Electronic Arts, the Co-founder of Starbucks, the founder of Moz, an award-winning author, politicians, sports stars and many more fantastic people.
Stay tuned for the first episodes dropping soon!