Episode description

🚨WARNING: Controversial topic alert!🚨

Historically, startup culture has forced people to create a professional facade. A facade that inhibits the ability to reveal any kind of distraction or humanity that might weaken your position or your professionalism in a corporate setting.

Challenging that trend is Amy Sun. Amy is CEO and Founder of Briefly AI and also a new mother. Before running her own startup, Amy has a storied career including such roles as Partner at Sequoia and Product Manager at both Facebook and Uber where she worked with Chris.

They discuss the difficulties and opportunities of being a new mother while also being a founder and running your own startup. The logistical challenges, the implicit and explicit biases and even the counterintuitive benefits.

This episode is sure to provide some 🌶️🌶️🌶️ discussions.

Episode Links

• Checkout Amy’s startup Briefly AI at: https://www.brieflyai.com/ 

• Connect with Amy on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunamy/ 

• Follow Amy on Twitter: @amysundae

• Amy’s Linkedin post on her experience of motherhood and being a startup founder: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sunamy_my-son-recently-celebrated-his-first-birthday-activity-7056281037928087552-CBVG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 

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