Gilad Uziely - Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Advisor | The Brutal Truth About Why 90% of Startups Fail
Podcast: Success Story with Scott D. ClaryPublished On: Wed Sep 24 2025
Description: ➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Gilad Uziely is the Co-founder and CEO of Sequence, a fintech startup backed by $7.5M in venture funding and building the world’s first financial “router” to tackle the $25 trillion global consumer banking market. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded the neo-bank Lance, launched the guided-tour marketplace Mekomy, and led major innovation initiatives for Tel Aviv Global. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Tel Aviv, Gilad served in the IDF, earned a degree in International Business from the University of Technology Sydney, and now lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/gilad_uziely/ https://x.com/uzielygilad/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/giladuziely/ ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/ Truth, Lies & Work Podcast - https://truthliesandwork.com ShipStation - https://www.shipstation.com/ (Code: SuccessStory) Square - https://square.com/go/success SurveyMonkey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/scott Monarch Money - https://www.monarchmoney.com (Code: Success) Claude - https://claude.ai/success Incogni - https://incogni.com/success (Code: Success) Think Big, Buy Small Podcast - https://link.chtbl.com/B2cH36AX?sid=SuccessStory NetSuite — https://netsuite.com/scottclary/ Indeed - https://indeed.com/clary ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 01:33 – The Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship 03:09 – Why Gilad Chose Entrepreneurship 04:34 – Lessons from a Failed First Company 06:42 – How Even Pros Get Core Assumptions Wrong 08:29 – Detaching Emotion to Make Better Decisions 16:04 – The Big Mindset Shift Behind Sequence’s Success 17:41 – Handling Investors in Tough Times 25:14 – Sponsor Break 27:25 – Founders’ Guide to Surviving Desperate Times 30:58 – Smart Strategies for Raising Capital 39:27 – What Makes Sequence Different from Competitors 44:38 – Sponsor Break 46:33 – How Sequence Changes Users’ Lives 50:06 – Financial Safeguards You Can Trust 53:44 – Will AI Make Bookkeepers Obsolete? 57:40 – The Future of Banking 1:00:18 – How to Extract Value from Failure 1:01:17 – Keeping Morale High in a Brutally Honest World 1:03:49 – The Best Advice Gilad Ever Received 1:04:09 – The #1 Lesson for His Children
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