Episode 29 - Ben Barrett - Co Founder of Nomad

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Ben Barrett, Co-Founder of Nomad, an AI adoption and software company he started while still in college. Ben shares the full arc of Nomad's journey, from burning through their first €3,000 in savings on a product nobody asked for, to hitting €40,000 in monthly revenue less than two years later on a two-times monthly growth trajectory. He talks about the discipline of building on customer money, why they deliberately avoided funding conversations until the model was working, and how refocusing on client delivery over product-building changed everything. They also discuss what funding should actually do for a business, why momentum matters more than ideas to investors right now, and how Nomad is thinking about raising as it prepares to expand beyond Ireland.