HeyZap cofounder launches bank for startups

Immad Akhund, Mercury, B2B, International Founders, Scaling, Sell Your Business

Four years ago today’s guest sold HeyZap for $45M. It was a long journey which we’ll talk about in this interview but I also want to find out about what he’s building now.

Immad Akhund is the founder of Mercury, a bank that helps startups scale. I tweeted out before this interview looking for negative stories about the company. I couldn’t find any. I want to find out how he’s grown a bank that’s for tech-savvy entrepreneurs.

Immad Akhund

Mercury

Immad Akhund is the founder of Mercury, a bank that helps startups scale.

Andrew: hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m a founder of Mixergy where today’s guest is in. Reminded me. I’ve been doing this for 10 years. and I remember interviewing his cofounder years ago. Let me introduce him a mod Monaco. And I’m pronouncing your last name, right?

Immad: Yeah, I’m good. Thanks for having me, Andrew.

Andrew: Thanks for being on here, dude. I remember interviewing new cofounder years ago about Hayes app and. Getting so freaking sucked into the games on the site that I couldn’t stop. And then it feels like you guys pivoted the company, you became an ad, uh, serving tech company and you sold for what? $54 million am I right? 45. I had it

Immad: Yeah, it was, it was a long journey. Should I walk you through that journey a

Andrew: go through it within this interview. I just want to set this up. So then the other thing that happened was, um, I. We somehow had an interview set...

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