One of the very first SaaS founders I ever met, in a parking garage in the fall of 2021, Jordan Shamir introduced me to the world of bots and how they were responsible for me always ending up in the nosebleed at concerts and sporting events. BotNot has since transitioned to become Yofi and Jordan takes us through his journey as a co-founder of this burgeoning business. 

Michael Spath sits down with the indomitable Christina Fair, the founder of Reconnect and the recent co-founder of Hum. A member of the advisory council for Michigan Founders Fund, Christina discusses why she created a team camaraderie and coaching platform for women, how she helped build Rocket Fiber, and how starting Hum is a dramatic departure from her experience with Rocket. 

Michael Spath sits down with Brand XR founder Moody Mattan and learns how Moody entered the augmented reality space, how he's built Brand XR into one of the rising stars within the vertical, and how a trip to the Bahamas with his family inspired his entrepreneurial spirit. 

Michael Spath sits down with Boon Health founder Alex Simmons to discuss the origins of his mental wellbeing business, why and how he choose to bootstrap Boon instead of seeking investor funding, finding the right co-founders for his team, and what the future holds for Boon and for Alex himself. 

Michael Spath sits down with Even Score founder Johnnie Turnage and his wife, and business partner, Alexa, to discuss how he got his start as a founder, looking back to the seminal moments that stirred his passion to community service and sparked his desire to create a unique product. 

Why have we created the Michigan Startup Podcast? The answer is simple: you. You tech founders have taken ideas and are turning them into great businesses, and we want to share your journeys. Every week, we will sit down with a new tech founder and explore where it all began, how they nurtured their idea, created a business, added teammates, fundraised, and eventually launched.