How to Become Relentless as an Entrepreneur (Kian Sadeghi, Nucleus)

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Episode 135: Today, I speak with Kian Sadeghi, one of the most impressive early-stage founders I have ever met. Kian's genetic testing company, Nucleus, has attracted investment from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Alexis Ohanian's 776, and he shares how he has employed relentlessness to build his company after dropping out of the University of Pennsylvania. Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! [email protected] #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal rebooted.
0:06.5	I'm your host Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.
0:10.9	As I mentioned last episode, Founders Journal is back better than ever with a new format that I believe
0:16.9	you are going to love.
0:18.4	Each week I am going to curate a world-class entrepreneur and interview them about their one thing, their one superpower, that
0:25.3	one thing that looks effortless to the world, the one thing that stacks the deck in their
0:29.6	favor as they build great businesses.
0:32.0	And today's guest is one of the most impressive early stage
0:35.4	founders I have met in a long, long time.
0:39.0	Kian Sidegi is the founder and CEO of Nucleus, a business that is trying to revolutionize genetic testing.
0:46.6	Kian is a 24-year-old dropout from Penn, where he studied computational biology,
0:52.0	and he has built one of the most promising
0:54.0	consumer health companies. He was awarded a Teal Fellowship and has attracted
0:58.4	investment from Peter Teal's Founders Fund and Alexis O'Hanean 776. This episode we talk about Kian's one thing
1:06.1	which is relentlessness, what relentlessness is, how to teach it, and how he
1:11.4	employed it specifically to Will Nucleus into existence.
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