Episode 30

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20th Jul 2020

Ep. 30 Todd Connor, Founder of Bunker Labs, Co-Founder & Facilitator of The Collective Academy

He is committed to helping individuals fulfill their full potential through their professional lives. In this episode, we explored topics:

  • Is it still worth it to get an MBA?
  • The Importance of white space 
  • Misconception of entrepreneurs
  • How to align your organization’s value with all stakeholders
  • Is being busy always a good thing? 
  • Knowing when to say no

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Todd Connor is a former management consultant, U.S. Navy veteran, and has held many leadership roles in the public and private sector – with the belief that we can all change and redirect our lives.

Todd is the CEO of Bunker Labs, a national non-for-profit organization built by military veteran entrepreneurs to empower other military veterans as leaders in innovation. 

Todd is also the architect and ideator behind The Collective Academy programs. A successful entrepreneur, he is expert at turning ideas into action into reality. He is all about learning by doing, and pushes others to be brave and be of service.

Todd co-owns Emerson House, a country manor retreat center in La Porte, IN.

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Investors & Operators
A Podcast by 51 Labs
The M&A market can be boring, but everyone has a story. The Investors & Operators podcast is about discovering the stories people were holding back, didn’t know how to tell, or forgot about. The goal is simple: fresh, authentic storytelling to bring people together in the M&A community.

With over 1M organic views and counting on LinkedIn, 51 Labs is disrupting the M&A market through the use of videography and content creation. In a market that longs for authenticity, 51 Labs helps strengthen your brand and tell your story. From concept to distribution, we strategize and produce thoughtful content to be used across a multitude of channels, to help you stand out in an otherwise traditionally boring market.

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Jordan Selleck

Founder. Recovering Investment Banker. 3x Entrepreneur. Philz Coffee Enthusiast.

Jordan Selleck is a recovering investment banker turned 3x entrepreneur. While teaching English in China, Jordan met an investment banker in a bar and before he knew it he’d spent six years in cross-border investment banking advising global corporates and private equity firms on M&A deals up to $250 million.

As much as Jordan loved investment banking, he always knew he was meant to do something more. In 2016, Jordan founded Debtmaven, a deal management platform for debt financing in the lower middle market. It was while he was marketing Debtmaven on LinkedIn that Jordan found his true passion: building meaningful relationships in the lower middle market.

Seeing over 50% of Debtmaven’s $450million+ in deals come from LinkedIn, he realized he’d found an untapped market and began his journey with LinkedIn consulting. Dozens of clients and a handful of extraordinarily talented employees later, 51 Labs is a thriving marketing agency for the lower middle market that produces captivating content and generates organic traffic across LinkedIn.

Jordan was born in San Diego, grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill. He has traveled to 32 countries, lived in China for 18 months, trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, is a fourth-generation private pilot, SCUBA dives, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and is a husband and father of 2.