Stop Networking, Start Connecting | David Homan | Chaos To Clarity Podcast
About this episode
You have hundreds of contacts on LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Instagram. But when you actually need help, you freeze. You don't know who to call. Why?
In this episode of Chaos To Clarity, Piyush Thacker sits down with David Homan, founder and CEO of Orchestrated Connecting and SOAR AI, and author of the book "Orchestrating Connection". David runs a global community of 2,600 active people across 35 countries and 189 cities. He spent a decade building those relationships before he ever built a company. When he went to raise his first round, he closed nearly $600,000 in nine weeks. His second close of $500,000 took eleven weeks. In an environment where most founders spend twelve to eighteen months raising. He did not pitch his network. He had already invested in it. In this conversation, David breaks down the difference between a network and a community built on trust, how he introduced himself to a billionaire by talking about grief, and why the ex-wife problem forced him to rebuild his startup's core algorithm.
David reveals the thinking behind SOAR Connect, a relational reputation technology that maps how long you have known someone, how often you are actually in touch, and what actions they have taken on your behalf. He explains how consent sits at every layer of the system, how reputation scores work in practice, and what happens when the algorithm surfaces your ex-spouse as your most trusted contact.
Listen for the moment David describes walking away from a $15 billion contact at a conference, not out of arrogance, but because that person asked about his resume at the exact moment he shared that his father had just died.
David Homan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrhoman/ Book - "Orchestrating Connection": https://a.co/d/00I3yaIP David Homan email: david@davidhoman.co David Homan Website: https://davidhoman.com/ Piyush Thacker on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyushthacker/ Thinkonic: https://thinkonic.com
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