Ed Cowan
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Oct
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Is it has something to do with your execution, how you view allocating capital, whether it being financial, human capital, what are you going to chase next, how you're going to stage out the next phase of growth and doing it in a really efficient manner?
And that discipline and rigour that you bring in from day one is so important, I imagine, in these businesses that are growing quickly.
It's it's also easy to sit back retrospectively and say, uh I might have done that six months, twelve months too late but at the time I'm sure it felt like the natural thing to do.
Yeah.
Rocked is making money, but that doesn't mean that you haven't taken on funding partners.
I think you've taken on maybe forty million dollars in in funding over the course of sort of six or seven years.
So y you have had this experience of of raising money, what it takes out of you as a founder
It's I'm sure on the top of the mind of a lot of CEOs.
How do you think about bringing equity partners in and that funding problem, so to speak?
business that's spinning out money on the other side.
People are queuing up.
I imagine bringing the right partner in is as important.
It it's like a marriage and you've had some great investment partners, you know, SquarePeg who are best in class, venture capitalists.
You know, John Ho, who who I think you met day one at at BCG, uh has has been a great supporter of your business as well.
How do you think about or do you have any advice for founders as to the type of partner they bring in?
You were the effective founder of Rock, but there were two other co-founders.
But they have essentially transitioned out of the business.
And I I'm interested in your experience of founder transition, because there are I'm sure there are a lot of entrepreneurs out there where this is the case and and things don't go as expected, or other founders moved on from the business.
What are your sort of experiences, reflections, and and lessons you've learned about
Managing found a transition.
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