The Startup That’s Taking On The Banks To Make The 99% Richer | Ep 65
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Funds and Founders: Untold Journeys Behind Their Breakthroughs
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What is Q Branch and how does it help international startups enter the U.S. market?
Be honest because I think if you're honest of where you're at, more people are
more forthcoming with our knowledge. I had forty subscribers before I even sent my first newsletter. But it's just a push for me to actualize what I wanted to.
Anything you do, like you can't learn this stuff in a book. You can't learn it in a book. There's no school or degree that's gonna teach you how to do it.
Yeah.
The only way you're gonna go to do it is from experience and listening to those around you. I think you're on to something there for sure because yeah, why would here like the US market, right? The biggest market everybody wants to be in it.
What's your perspective on the role of having a good community for a
I mean it's everything. So it would have been in high school, my father when he got out of the military. He went uh he worked for some companies a little while and then he went and started his own consulting firm in weapon systems for the buffer defense.
I wanna highlight the founder story of hey when you have an idea, you need to be persistent, have a plan, have an idea. Sort of not just give up on any negative signal that comes out. Hey guys. Welcome back to Funds and Founders. We have Michael on today. I'm trying to remember Michael where we first met. Was it at the Q Brand South by event last year where we like properly talked for the first time I was there? Yeah, that
was that was exactly it.
Yeah. Why don't you quickly tell people what you do, what are you working on? I have this joke that retention on YouTube is like three minutes. So I plug everyone I get at the beginning of the episode and then I plug you again at the end. But quickly run through sort of what you're working on, what's top of mind and what you've been doing. I
have three minutes, is that what you're telling me?
No, three minutes retention on YouTube. So like Oh yeah, yeah. After three minutes people drop off. Oh yeah.
Uh so I I'm the CEO uh C O O, excuse me, the C O O of Q Branch. Uh my brother's a CEO and it was kind of his idea, his brain child, but what Q Branch is is We're kind of like an international accelerator, if you will, but really our focus is bringing international companies into the US and uh giving them go to market strategies, putting them possibly through dual use if they have a product or something that can be used for the government. Um we have contracts with Spain. Uh we had one with Spain, Japan, uh Singapore. Uh Western Australia and where they would uh they would utilize our services. Um p they would pay us to bring in these companies and we'd Free 'em up to speed with the culture of the US and make sure that their whatever their business model is will actually work here in the US uh and make adjustments here or there.
Uh and then just try to facilitate meetings, whether they need meetings for customers or customer or uh investors. Uh and things of that nature. So by the time sometimes half of it's virtual. Uh Sometimes it's not. They just come down and by the time they're here they've we've kind of helped them set up and after that those programs are over we still stay in constant ta contact with them. If they need more help then we can provide more one on one with them.
Nice.
But mainly two we also do one on one with any company.
Nice. And then what's the fintech company you're working on?
The fintech company is populous. Um so what populace is is but you know how banks make money, right?
They store your money, make interest on that money by loaning it out.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Well they make billions and billions every year in profit, but um they don't share that with you. They utilize your money basically to do that. So what the idea of populace is is that in reverse, where we take in uh members. And and the whole point of it, the premises is to be Very easy to understand because there's about forty seven percent of Americans really don't under have the financial literacy, if you will, about investing. But not to mention too, most of the individuals work hard. Uh they don't have time to come home. And then
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Q Branch and how does it help international startups enter the U.S. market?
0:00–8:28
2
How does Populist reverse the traditional banking model to benefit the 99 %?
8:28–17:00
3
What are the key features of Populist’s passive‑investing and discount‑network offering?
17:00–25:42
4
What lessons did Michael learn from working with federal contracts and government agencies?
25:42–35:20
5
How does founder persistence and the 18‑month grind influence startup outcomes?
35:20–44:01
6
What are the main cultural and strategic differences between U.S. founders and international founders?
44:01–51:50
7
Why is community essential for founders in Austin’s startup ecosystem and how can they build it?
51:50–1:00:09
8
What advice and next steps does Michael recommend for aspiring fintech founders?
1:00:09–1:08:49
Speakers
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