Taking Your Startup Public with Thomas Healy

Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, the only daily show interviewing the world's top entrepreneurs seven days a week. Today we'll be breaking down, taking your startup public. To drop these value bombs, I brought Thomas Healy into EO Fire Studios. Thomas is the founder and CEO of Highly On. A provider of innovative generator technology to produce clean, efficient, and affordable electricity. As an entrepreneur, he has founded two startups prior to Highly on and holds over twenty patents. Today we'll talk about the startup journey, Forbes thirty under thirty, youngest billionaire, challenges, struggles, and Oh, so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring our episode goes to Thomas and our sponsors. Over forty one thousand businesses have future proved their business with NetSuite by Oracle, the number one cloud ERP, bringing accounting, financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform. Download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning for free at Netsuite.com slash

Fire. Thomas. Say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most People disagree with. I think a lot of people think what drives entrepreneurs is the financial opportunity of where the company's heading. Uh I disagree with that. I think if you're going after one of these more risky startups where you're really going out to change the world, to make a difference in society.

I think for that entrepreneur, there needs to be something different that drives you. I know for me it's more about Changing the world, creating a hopefully multi-generational company, something that can have a positive impact on society, on climate change. Uh that's really the driver versus I think a lot of people think It's monetary driven, uh, and I don't think that's the case for many of the entrepreneurs out there. I love that and Fire Nation. We're gonna be going through

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