141. Louise Hill, GoHenry Founder: Product Market Fit, Scaling and Exit - the board’s role in the GoHenry story
Description
Louise Hill is Exec Chair, former CEO & Co-founder of GoHenry. Her board roles include Sibstar and Innovate Finance’s Unicorn Council for UK FinTech. Listen to the conversation to hear about: Louise’s sources of support and challenge in the early stages of GoHenry (2:01 ) How the board helped her with product market fit and go-to-market strategy (4:27 ) Three key strategic decisions where the board added value (10:22 ) Why it can be better to target end-users than distribution partners (12:56 ) The pros and cons of crowdfunding: the story behind the $5.6 million raise on CrowdCube, the highest ever at that point (14:28 ) Key principles of fundraising every board member should know (21:19 ) Where Louise could have got more value from her board (26:11 ) Board and founder lessons from The GoHenry exit (30:38 ) ⚡The Lightning Round ⚡(34:22 )
Host: Oliver Cummings
Producer: Will Felton
Music: Kate Mac
Audio: Nick Kold
Email: podcast@nurole.com
Web: https://www.nurole.com/nurole-podcast-enter-the-boardroom
United States
