Episode 115 - Hunter Swensson, COO and Co-Founder at Paranoid Fan

The Startup Catalyst

This is the Startup catalyst podcast brought to you by Sultan Ventures, the show where we interview entrepreneurs and investors on the stories and catalysts of their startup successes and failures. I’m your host, Luke Tucker. Today’s episode kicks off our special 3-part sport focused olympic series, leading off with Hunter Swensson, Founder and COO at paranoid fan Paranoid Fan is a social mapping app that helps fans navigate through their game-day experience, and Hunter has a super interesting journey, being a professional sports athlete where his corporate sponsors included Toyota, and he also worked for ESPN in Texas. In the interview, we get into a lot, from the ups and downs of founding a company, getting customers at Paranoid Fan, building their company in Dallas... and you’ll find out about “old man makowski”. One Key lesson I'd like to highlight: take what you learn from your successes and apply it to your future endeavors (in hunter’s case, his halo esports dominance help --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/startup-catalyst-podcast/support