Michael Stan
@Michal_Stan
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Founder of Uniflow | Financial management ecosystem, where you are in control. Building digital autonomy for People Sovereignty
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2021
Socialism fails when it rewards people who won't work instead of those who can't. There's a difference between helping people who need it and subsidizing people who refuse to contribute. In my experience, every functional society needs a balance. Support those who genuinely
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It looks like I just got invited to speak about Financial Credibility, Pitching & Industry Engagement for Harriot Wat University in Edinburgh 🤩🔥 That's a great start of Monday I would say
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November 2023 was brutal. I looked at our burn rate and realized we had maybe 4 months left. No revenue. No clear path forward. Just a product that worked but nobody paid for yet. I remember sitting in that tiny Edinburgh flat thinking this is it. This is where Uniflow dies.
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Last Tuesday morning hit different. I was reading government spending reports over coffee. $847 billion in interest payments alone this year. That's not investment. That's not building infrastructure. That's servicing debt. Then I remember 2008. I watched the financial system
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2021 felt like the beginning. 2022 through 2023 felt like the end. Multiple times. Lost our first CTO right out the gate. Six months of work, just gone. Then came the developer carousel. Over 40 different devs touched our codebase in those first years. Imagine trying to build a
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Friday afternoon, January 10th. I sent 33 DMs to financial professionals on LinkedIn. Not spam. Not generic. Real, targeted messages to people who actually understand the problem we're solving. By Saturday morning, 2 people replied. Both interested in exploring Uniflow. That
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I was $47,000 in debt in 2019. Not student loans. Not a mortgage. Just poor financial decisions and zero control over where my money was actually going. Every month felt like treading water. Working harder, making more, but somehow ending up further behind. Then I did
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December 2024 taught me something brutal about bootstrapping. I had calls with 3 VCs that month. All three said the same thing: "Great idea, come back when you have traction." Translation: "Give us proof you don't need our money, then we'll give you money." The whole system is
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September 2023 was a nightmare I'll never forget. We had paying beta testers. Real people using our B2B platform. Things were finally working. Then our technical lead quit. Just walked away. And our ARR didn't just stall, it crashed. $0 to $0 to... still $0. I spent October
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January 14th, 2026. Reading economic reports with my morning coffee. The global economy is sitting on $307 trillion in debt. That's not million. Not billion. TRILLION. Governments talk about fiscal responsibility while printing money like it's going out of style. Which,
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Real talk? The millionaire mindset isn't about hustling 24/7. I spent years chasing that. Built Uniflow since 2021. Burned out twice. Lost developers. Watched money disappear faster than I could raise it. Then something clicked in late 2024. Wealth isn't about working harder.
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January 2026. $0 MRR. Again. Most people would have quit years ago. Hell, I've thought about it. A lot. But here's the thing about building to $5k/month: It's not actually about the number. I could've built something quick and hit $5k already. Some SaaS tool that solves a tiny
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January 2026. $0 MRR. Again. Most people would have quit years ago. Hell, I've thought about it. A lot. But here's the thing about building to $5k/month: It's not actually about the number. I could've built something quick and hit $5k already. Some SaaS tool that solves a tiny
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Real talk? The millionaire mindset isn't about hustling 24/7. I spent years chasing that. Built Uniflow since 2021. Burned out twice. Lost developers. Watched money disappear faster than I could raise it. Then something clicked in late 2024. Wealth isn't about working harder.
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January 14th, 2026. Reading economic reports with my morning coffee. The global economy is sitting on $307 trillion in debt. That's not million. Not billion. TRILLION. Governments talk about fiscal responsibility while printing money like it's going out of style. Which,
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September 2023 was a nightmare I'll never forget. We had paying beta testers. Real people using our B2B platform. Things were finally working. Then our technical lead quit. Just walked away. And our ARR didn't just stall, it crashed. $0 to $0 to... still $0. I spent October
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December 2024 taught me something brutal about bootstrapping. I had calls with 3 VCs that month. All three said the same thing: "Great idea, come back when you have traction." Translation: "Give us proof you don't need our money, then we'll give you money." The whole system is
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I was $47,000 in debt in 2019. Not student loans. Not a mortgage. Just poor financial decisions and zero control over where my money was actually going. Every month felt like treading water. Working harder, making more, but somehow ending up further behind. Then I did
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Friday afternoon, January 10th. I sent 33 DMs to financial professionals on LinkedIn. Not spam. Not generic. Real, targeted messages to people who actually understand the problem we're solving. By Saturday morning, 2 people replied. Both interested in exploring Uniflow. That
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2021 felt like the beginning. 2022 through 2023 felt like the end. Multiple times. Lost our first CTO right out the gate. Six months of work, just gone. Then came the developer carousel. Over 40 different devs touched our codebase in those first years. Imagine trying to build a
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Last Tuesday morning hit different. I was reading government spending reports over coffee. $847 billion in interest payments alone this year. That's not investment. That's not building infrastructure. That's servicing debt. Then I remember 2008. I watched the financial system
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