Episode description
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss how being a parent made them better founders, and vice versa. There are things that we won’t understand until we experience them ourselves, and in a Startup, there are similar things that we can compare when it comes to leading and being a parent. Once you start teaching your kids good values you can apply those to your company, because as they say, “being a founder is like being a parent, you always stay involved.”
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What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:23 Does being a parent make you a better founder?
- 04:50 Teaching your kids to question everything
- 10:18 Leading with humility
- 11:36 The answers can change when we ask questions
- 14:03 Start with what makes you happy
- 20:08 Just because you have talent, you don’t have to do it
- 24:27 Give your kids permission to do something else
- 25:26 Having empathy
- 29:11 Stay curious