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How a near-death experience changed this founder’s approach to fear

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1:20 Join us at masters of scale dot com slash apply twenty six. That's mastersofscom slash apply. Twenty six. I used to make bold choices, but they were often driven by fear. Like fear of not being enough, fear of not comparing well to my friends.

1:43 Feared of never being loved. And I really let that drive me. And Yeah, you realize that Nothing is as bad as the fear of the thing.

1:57 A near death experience forced Om's founder and CEO Matthew Pulson to face his greatest fears. It also unlocked new ways of seeing the world. This mindset shift fueled the growth of his unusual business model. the people that are maybe most in the news. They may be leading from places of fear or places of greed.

2:20 And so we tend to start to think that that's The reality. But that's just getting clickbait, we know our algorithms are designed to spread that kind of stuff. But when you look around, you know, when you lift up from your phone and look out in the world.

2:34 Like you see. Empathy and compassion everywhere. You gotta have incredible talent at every position. Like this is a huge push. There are fires burning when you're going out. Can you believe it? Such an idiot. And then you go back to this is totally gonna be amazing. There are so many easy ways. I have no idea what to do. Sorry, we made a mistake. But you have to time it right. Oops. Working out of a three bedroom apartment. We haven't made it. Just how you do it. This

3:13 is masters of scale. I'm Jeff Berman, your host. This week on the show, amazed founder Matthew Pulson reveals how he's scaling an innovative for profit model. For fueling charitable giving. Matt, welcome to Masters of Scale.

3:37 Thanks for having me, Jeff. We've known each other for two decades. Um, you were an actor with a Stanford degree and a lot of ideas for what else you might do in life when we met. How do you go from being an actor in the mid two thousands to where you are today. How d how'd you get started on the entrepreneurial journey? Well you start by being not very good at acting. For anyone who wants I mean, you know, go check out Nats Everwood run. It was epic.

4:06 You know, I was Doing acting. I really loved it. And then I transitioned into doing storytelling, trying to use storytelling to inspire action. So did a bunch of different projects

4:20 Me and my buddy were the first directors on this thing called Live Earth, which was the biggest concert ever thrown on the seven continents one night. We were early producers on Girl Rising about girls education in the developing world. That was funded by Oprah and Queen Ronnie of Jordan and Meryl Streep was narrated. And then just realize we were creating a lot of awareness around these projects, but we weren't creating a lot of impact. And so I went to business school, tried to

4:44 Learn new ways of thinking, surround myself with people smarter than me. And uh it was when I was in school it's when we came up with the idea for Almez. And if I remember correctly, there was a bit of a Magic Johnson moment that was part of the origin story. We will you share that with us? Yeah, magic. was hosting an auction For the boys and girls club where he was auctioning off the chance to play basketball with him.

5:06 And go to a Lakers game, but it was one of those things that was only available to the high net worth. individuals in the room and we were in the room, but not High net worth individuals. Because the highest bidder was gonna win Exactly. Exactly. We were just like the guys who got invited to fill the table. I'm sure you've been to a lot of these rubber chicken dinners before. And so we watch as the auction went up to fifteen thousand.

5:26 He was childhood here like nothing would rather do than play basketball with magic. But we couldn't afford to participate. And so when we were driving home that night, we said You know, doesn't make any sense. He has fans around the world. Not just in that room. So if we make it so anybody can donate ten dollars for the chance to win, we could raise so much more money, so much more awareness.

5:44 open up a whole new donor base. And how did that Moment of inspiration driving home from the boys and girls club event lead to starting on its So I was in business school still at the time and I basically went to all my professors and said, I'm working on this exclusively And then we just started hustling. And try to get celebrities to do that with us. We started very slow. Our first experience was to be a guest judge on Cupcake Wars.

6:10 And it raised seven hundred and eighty four dollars. We now raise that and Twelve seconds. That took us six months to do. first real break came with breaking bad. We did an experience with Brian and Erin that really put us on the map. And that's really how it started.

6:25 Brian Cranston and Aaron Paul the stars of the hit tv show. Hi, it's Brian and Dan and Dre. They are the winners of the contest that we did through O'Maze. benefiting National Center for missing and exploited children we raised$302,000 Thanks to all of you for joining us. Explain how it works, Matt. Is it a lottery, is it a raffle, is it a sweepstakes, like how exactly does it work?

6:52 Yeah, so that depends on the country that it's in in terms of the legal framework, but it's all the mechanic is very similar in that A bunch of people are putting in either ten dollars or ten pounds for the chance We're for profit, but a percentage goes to charity, percentage goes to

7:08 Us And so back in the day when we started it was celebrities, like with Breaking Bad, for example Brian and Aaron offer the chance to Riding to Winnebago with them. Put on the hazmat suits if you know the show. Cook.

7:22 Blue Candy, AK Meth, and watch the very last episode of Breaking Bad. With them. The rest of the cast. They offered that an auction and one person bid forty thousand and then they did it with us and it raised one point seven million. So you could see the delta Whoa Okay, so how does the actual water flow of dollars work? Like how does a charity benefit? How does O Maze benefit? Yeah, I mean it's probably better to explain how it works today. Now we offer Houses.

7:48 And so every month a person can win. A Five to six million pound house. Matt is saying pounds because the company he runs, Omaze, now operates mostly in the UK. And but basically the way it works is we go by the houses.

8:05 We fix them up, we design'em. In some cases we build them. And then we put'em up and A seven milion dollar house can raise Call it thirty three million in sales.

8:16 A third of that goes to charity and VAT. A third of that goes to the prizing costs in addition to the house. We cover all the taxes for the winter. We give away cash prizes. We cover all their furniture, everything so they can we give them two hundred fifty thousand pounds to move in, all that kind of stuff. And then a third goes to operating expenses, marketing and our profit. Are you still doing celebrities or you've moved out of celebrity entirely? We still have celebrities that partner with us to help promote

8:43 The houses. So David Beckham did one. Prince William was also involved. So they'll do funny content. to get the word out. But there's no celebrity experience. Now it's just transition from doing celebrity experiences all the way into just doing houses. Why have you stopped doing that? The celebrity experiences were great, but there was just limit to the scale.

9:02 And you know, we would have Something happened like One day we were supposed to do a huge shoot with Arnold. Schwarzenegger. It was gonna be our big experience for the next month.

9:13 And then he called us right before the shoot and said He can't come. I said, What's the deal? Why can't he come? And they're like, Well, he's getting his hair cut with Sylvester Stallone. And I was like, Is that a real thing? And they're they said yes, they love to get their hair cut together whenever they're in town. It's been a couple of weeks. So he can't come today. And then we missed our next month. So we didn't control our own destiny. And so the reason we went away from that model was

9:35 you know, there's a whole like I had a whole kind of personal health experience that drove that realization. Let's go there, Matt,'cause to say a personal health experience is is a bit of an understatement. You had a near death experience. What happened? This was actually almost exactly seven years ago. I was seven years into the Omaze journey.

9:53 The company was Around probably People wise a hundred and fifty people. And what happened was When I was born my stomach was twisted in a knot.

10:05 I was supposed to die when I was born. And the scar tissue from that surgery had broken off. Forty years later, I was forty at the time this happened. And Over the course of a couple days my stomach was getting bigger. I like I look like two months pregnant, five months pregnant.

10:19 you know, seven months pregnant. So I called my buddy who's a doctor and said, Hey I look like I'm seven months pregnant. Do I need to do something about this? He said you should go to the hospital. So I go to the hospital. My parents come, our COO, Helen. And they do all these tests.

10:37 And they can't figure out what's going on. So then they say to my parents, they say to Helen, you guys go home. And if Matt's not better in the morning, then we'll just do some kind of exploratory surgery then. Helen pulls into a driveway. It's Probably eleven PM at night and something tells her To go back. To the hospital?

10:57 And Helen is very serious. She's British. She's a COO. She's not like a Venice Beach listen to the Cosmos. Type person. But the voice was undeniable. So she drove back. And if she hadn't driven back, I may have died like Forty five minutes later. What about her driving back led to the discovery that there was something

11:18 Existential happening. She came in the room and immediately discovered that my blood pressure had plummeted. She went and got the nurse. They called in the crash team, rushed me down into surgery. Came out of surgery and they said in my mom The good news is we figured out what it was, what it is. It's a bowel obstruction. The bad news is that he's in critical condition.

11:40 His heart rate is continuing to plummet and we don't know why. Mm. So what happened next? She got to the door and the nurse said, Uh I'm sorry. You can't come in. This is really serious.

11:50 And she said, Look, I was there when he came in this world. If he's leaving this world right now, I'm gonna be in that room. So it let her in the room. I was fully flatlined. And they were doing the compressions and they were doing the Defibrillator, the shocks, but I wasn't responding. Yeah.

12:06 And my mom started to Trouble. As you can imagine, it's one thing to lose a child. It's happening immediately in front of you.

12:15 She saw something that created this kind of Spiritual experience. Mm-hmm. Mm. She said

12:24 Every nurse and every staff member and every doctor in the ICU had just gravitated Outside the window. And there were like forty of them. And she said they look like this silent church choir just sending in Positive energy.

12:40 And she was so moved. by these people that were sending Love to her son that they didn't even know. That it just filled her up with strength. And she took a big breath and she started coaching me.

12:53 And she said Matthew David Polson. These people are fighting so hard. To bring you back. But you are not fighting hard enough. You need to fight harder to come back to us. You need to fight.

13:04 And the flat line went on for four and a half minutes. The main doctor kinda pulled away indicating that this was done. She said, No, no, please, please don't call it and she grabbed his arm And then they said they saw something that they'd never seen before. In the hospital.

13:19 All of a sudden. I just popped up. And I kinda was on my right side. And I lifted my right arm and Give it a thumbs up.

13:29 Wow. the doctor who had initially done the surgery came down and He said his organs have shut down. And she said, I understand. But two minutes ago we didn't have a pulse.

13:41 And now we have a pulse. So what are we gonna do about that? And he said, Well, there's this thing called an ECMO machine. It's a very rare machine. It takes over the beating of the heart and the oxygenation of the lungs. But the problem is is we only have one of these.

13:55 And we were at UCLA Santa Monica and ACMA was at UCLA Westwood. Which is twenty minutes apart. And he said he's not gonna r survive the ride. And we've never we've never transported one of these. No one's ever transported one of these. The other problem is is we only have two doctors who do this surgery.

14:12 And neither of them are on call and it's Father's Day. And so that my buddy that I called the beginning of the story, he happened to be at a bachelor party in Vegas sitting next to the head of cardiology at UCLA. Mm. And he said to him. Hey man, can you check your phone to see how my buddy is doing? I sent him in yesterday with a stomach issue.

14:30 The guy checked. And he said, Hey man, your buddy's in real trouble. Like he could pass any minute here. So they got a hold of the CEO of UCLA. They got him to sign off on transporting the ECMO, the first mobile ECMO unit. Definitely in the US, but maybe the world.

14:45 They called the doctor, got him to leave his father's day, barbecue. And they brought the ECMO machine to me and did this surgery that had never been done before, and kind of duct taping the ECMO to the ambulance. Not from having a buddy. who's a doctor to call when you look like you're seven months pregnant. to Helen turning around and coming back to the hospital to

15:07 Your mom Saying don't call it. And uh Silent choir of forty outside the window. Two

15:15 Your buddy sitting next to the head of cardiology U C L A at a Yeah. I mean, It sounds like miracle top miracle top miracle top miracle.

15:28 How do you understand what happened? It's taken me a long time to process it. You know, it's really maybe believe in things. that I did not believe in before. And

15:40 It just makes me believe so deeply in the power of humanity and compassion. I really think that is who we are. You know, and then when I like Was leaving the hospital. Weeks later I sat at the edge of my bed and the same doctor. You know, he sat me down, he's like, Look

15:55 I want you to understand something when I finish my career thirty years from now. I'm talking about the most extraordinary case I've ever seen. This is gonna be it. You know, we had you at zero percent chance of survival. Effectively and the fact that we have you going home with your full faculties, we have no medical

16:10 Explanation for that. And I was like, Do you have Any explanation for that? Can you give me something? And He said, Look, we were inspired by your mom, but outside of that there were larger forces. I play.

16:23 And I said, Well as a man of science, like how do you define And he said it was love. It was love that brought you back.

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18:13 on our YouTube channel. What changed for you? Now that you believed in love and you had this different perspective on the world? I actually went through like a period of Elation and then depression. You know, why was I here? Why did I iron it? Was all these things that I experienced. I had this whole like

18:31 You know, come back to the light experience, was that real? All that stuff. I was having a hard time with. But eventually where I got was I just have a much Better relationship to fear. Than I used to.

18:44 I used to make bold choices, but they're often driven by fear. Like fear of not being enough, fear of not comparing well to my friends. Feared of never being loved. And I really let that drive me. And you know, you realize that like nothing is as bad as the fear of the thing.

19:03 Dying without like living my potential used to be my greatest fear and then I went through some version of that and it was like oh That was okay. And so I think like the stories we tell each ourselves about fear are always way worse than actually what happens. You know, in most cases our fears are We're not actually threatened, right? We're creating these things. I think I'm way better at processing through that faster. Cause you realize like

19:27 The opposite of love is not hate, it's fear. And so if you can get to the other side of fear faster, if you can process through it faster. You live a a much richer life. What big decisions have you made differently because of this? significantly evolved perspective on the world. You know, you can make the same decision

19:46 from fear or love. Like the exact same one. You can fire someone from a place of fear or from a place of love. I would say It enabled me to make some pretty bold choices against resistance when before this happened I had caved in. Two Criticism.

20:01 It inspired me when I came back from this to change the business being focused on celebrities to focused on Prizes. That was a huge change for us. We got a lot of resistance from our board and the team. But I Was not scared of what people

20:17 Thought of me. In that decision. I felt like I was making it from a place of expansion rather from a place of fear. We made the decision to focus just on the UK, stop operations in the US because we didn't feel like we had enough money to do both markets.

20:32 That was a very unpopular decision. I don't think I would have been able to do either of those decisions. Before this happened. Let's go back to the the more analytical side of these pivotal Calls that you've made and steering a maze. the first to move away from working with celebrities.

20:49 What led you to make that call and curious what the opposition from from board investors, other stakeholders might have been and how you overcame that. We had done a campaign with Daniel Craig. six months before I went into the hospital where you got to go to the Aston Martin track, you got to ride around in a one of a kind Aston Martin. And then you got to keep Dasta Martin.

21:09 And it was supposed to raise. three hundred thousand for the United Nations and it raised two point one million. And so I went to our CFO Nina at the time and said, Hey, I think we should take a bet. I think we should go buy a two hundred fifty thousand dollar McLaren. Offer it with just a maze distribution, no talent. And if we could raise five hundred thousand on our own, then we would really have something.

21:31 The other thing to say though is we only had nine hundred thousand in the bank. So two hundred fifty thousand was a big It's a big bet was a real bet at that point. But then the car coincidentally launched the day before I unexpectedly went in the hospital. So when I came back all those months. Later. And I was sitting down with Nina and kind of

21:47 regrounding myself. I said, or by the way, whatever happened with the McLaren, did it raise the five hundred thousand? And she said it raised one point nine million. And immediately I was like That changes everything. We're going all in on that.

22:00 But the whole team was organized around doing these crazy celebrity experiences. We were well known for that. We had been on all these shows and their friends recognized it and it was cool and all that stuff. And The board like that too and It was a big change. And because I had stepped away for a while, I was able to see it much faster than if I would have been there every day. And so I think the speed of the change. Was

22:22 jolting for people. I think the most underrated skill in entrepreneurship is storytelling. And I think it's also the most important skill and so I basically painted a vision and story of like what this would look like on the other side and that's how we ultimately got there. It's a really important

22:38 Note Matt, I think it's something that a lot of founders are naturally good at and a lot of founders don't pay a second of attention to. But it's fundamental to everything. That we do. I teach storytelling classes to every team member, no matter what role they're in. We go into the First principle is the fundamental like neuroscience of storytelling, why stories matter. to the principles of how you tell them and how you make the customer the hero. And and so we're like very serious.

23:05 About it. And that shows up in Everything you do. Think about like fundraising, right? What's evaluation?

23:14 Evaluation is just metrics. Plus storytelling. We see wild differences. Invaluations. Because of their better storytellers. Marketing, obviously, product development, seeing the world through an eyes of the other.

23:27 hiring, recruiting, setting a vision for the company, like all of that really I mean it's from how well you paint where you're going. What we're gonna do next year is just a story. Every great social movement, every great business movement, even every great like sports movement in the world has been driven by storytelling. Okay, let's go back to the second

23:49 pivotal decision that you Noted. which was the decision to focus on the UK and leave the US Not a lot of companies. that have hit your scale that have gone in that direction.

24:04 Why'd you do it? So we had After the Daniel Craig and the McLaren thing we had started doing prizes in the US and we had done holidays and then sneakers and watches and then cars and supercars and all those things were going well. But we said, you know, where it's really at is houses.

24:20 A car changes someone's lifestyle, a house changes someone's life, and it's the perfect product to storytell around a house like represents all of Maza's hierarchy of needs, its safety, its security, its status, its relationships, its self-realization. And so we felt like from a first principle's perspective that would really work. And We had a good business going, though, with the celebrities in the cars, and so we decided to test that in the UK. Why the UK? Smaller market. We had a really good operator here.

24:45 It's a good regulatory environment. And it was a small country with high population density, so the houses would be relevant to everybody. We didn't want to disrupt what was going on in the US and we felt like to do it right, it had to be very simple and very clear and just wanted to get to the point where we could do a house every month as a subscription. And it really just took off really fast. You know, we had twenty people in the UK, we passed the sales of the US had uh hundred and eighty people in like fifteen months.

25:09 Mm. And the retention rates were Off the charts. So it became very clear like this was the model. And that the model was subscription. It was you've got a monthly ten pound or whatever it is, and that automatically enters you into the the monthly House experience. Exactly. Yeah, we've got higher tiers that get you different things and other prizes, but that's basically it.

25:31 We put it in the category of a consumer subscription entertainment, you know, like a Spotify or a Netflix and it and the retention rates are at that level. It's it's wild. The union economics were really strong. We said okay, over time we can flip this into becoming a really profitable business. So it was clear that we should

25:48 Just be doing that. And then the question was, Okay, well if we're doing that with twenty five people in the UK, we have a hundred and eighty people in the US, like something's gotta give there. And then the question was, do we try to do it in both markets? But We

26:04 Really wanted to focus and get the UK to a great place and get to where we could do a house every single month. And in order to do that you have to buy eight houses out in front. And so that's a big investment. And

26:17 We thought you know, let's just prove it there. And we think the market's big enough, even though it's a smaller country, and then we can come back to the US. And so that was how we arrived at the decision it was definitely a leap and it was hard. I mean it meant letting go of Hundred and eighty people that were amazing people that a lot of which had been there since the beginning of Amazon were

26:37 Uber creative and uper resilient and Super talented. But It was just the reality of where we were. Matt, when it comes to this newer model where it's not a celebrity who's choosing a a charity, how somebody's choosing what charities to work with, how are you vetting them, how are you deciding how you can have the greatest positive impact?

26:56 Yeah, so we Do an RFP process request for proposal process where the charities talk about How they're gonna use the money. We try to do tangible projects as much as possible. An example is when we did

27:12 last year with the London Air Ambulance, which Prince William is the patron and you know David Beckham is a supporter. London Air Ambulance If you don't live in London, they're these red helicopters that come and pick people up when normal ambulances can't get to them. Those have been going for twenty five years. They had to retire the old helicopters by law.

27:35 They were Four million Short. to sponsor the new ones and if the if they didn't raise the four million, that program was gonna go away. And that picks up three thousand people a year. The modern.

27:47 So I happened to be at the gala when they announced that an ambulance saved my life. So it's like well, we would really love to help. And so the Maze community Raised them actually five million. Dollars a little bit more than that, actually. And I'll tell you a crazy story on that just to bring it back. But

28:04 When I went to the event to see the new helicopters I I said to them, you know, what's the difference between these helicopters And the old ones and they said they have this special machine on them that has never been on a Helicopter before. And I said, Well what's the machine? And they said, Oh, you would never heard of it. It's a very rare machine. I said

28:21 Try me. And they said it's called an ECMO. Machine. Which is obviously the machine that saved me. This will be the first mobile ECMO in the UK. The machine to save me was the first Mo Bloc Mo we think in the world.

28:35 They told me that I just started crying, like at an event, like in front of every I just immediately started crying. Yeah. Um but that's an example of something that like has a real tangible impact. The amazing community can see what they did and we know it changes people's lives. It gives everyone a a chance to survive. And that's really cool. There's a lot of uh coincidence in the world, but occasionally there's providence and this this sounds like Providence. How big's the business today? I don't give exact numbers, but we're past a four hundred million run rate. Yeah. I mean it strikes me that we focus so heavily on shareholders and so little on on stakeholders who aren't shareholders. And building it into the business model. makes it certainly easier to do. But you're proving the point that you can build a

29:17 pretty darn big and impactful business that's generating a lot of revenue and a lot of profit. While also doing a lot of good in the world. What's the takeaway for founders who have businesses where that impact is not core to the business model. What do you say to them about how they can lead their companies in a way that will both do good and do well? Well, I I think a company is inherently a good thing, like creating jobs.

29:43 For people. Is a good thing. Like organizing people around A productive Use of their time is a good thing. So You've the vast majority of companies

29:53 shouldn't necessarily try to Do good. I think what they can do good is do good by their team. Make sure what they're doing. Does no harm. But

30:03 Creating a big business in its own right that serves customers or Serves businesses. Is a great endeavor. And a beautiful thing. We're in a moment, certainly in the US and to a large extent globally, where empathy and compassion seem to be out of fashion. They're not in vogue. At the moment.

30:22 What keeps you optimistic? What keeps you believing that what you came out of your of your near death experience with can come back. and help lead the world to better place. I see so many examples of empathy and compassion. On a daily basis.

30:41 I think there's heroes all around us, if you look for them. We tend to hear people that are maybe most in the news Are leading from different places. They may be leading from places of fear or places of greed. And so we tend to start to think that that's the reality. But that's just

30:57 Getting clickbait, we know our algorithms are designed to spread that kind of stuff. But when you look around, when you lift up from your phone and look out in the world I think you see. Empathy and compassion everywhere. When you See people interact with

31:12 Others that they may criticize online. When you see them interact with them in the real world, like They feel that connection. I I really believe that that is our default. And we will find

31:23 Ways to celebrate that and make that more of the culture. Again. Yeah. And when things are dark, it's helpful to look for the glimmers and One of the glimmers that does come through my phone is every time I see you post about someone whose life Omeze has changed. So thank you for providing those glimmers and for

31:41 what you've done and for being with us on Masters of Scale, Matt. I really appreciate you. I really appreciate you, Jeff. This is a great podcast. I've known Matt a long time. And it is hard to come away from a conversation with him not feeling inspired. Energized and frankly fired up.

32:06 What he and the maze team are building is a fascinating new model for how to do good. And do well. You also don't, I think, have to go through a near-death experience to realize new ways of approaching your business and serving your customers. I'm Jeff Berman. Thank you for listening.

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