{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Parallel Entrepreneur with Mark Cleveland","title":"The Science Behind Running Multiple Businesses at Once | Dr. Tobias Kutzewski","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3713,"description":"What if running multiple businesses isn't a failure to focus, but a different way of operating altogether?\nDr. Tobias Kutzewski has spent years studying entrepreneurs who build and manage multiple ventures simultaneously. His research followed 21 entrepreneurs over time, examining how they allocate resources, respond to uncertainty, recognize opportunities, build teams, and decide when to explore something new while continuing to operate what they already have.\nIn this episode of The Parallel Entrepreneur, Mark Cleveland sits down with Tobias to compare that research with Mark's own experience of building multiple companies throughout his career.\nThey explore strategic optionality, the ability to prepare for and seize opportunities you cannot necessarily predict, and what happened when Tobias's research collided with the enormous uncertainty of COVID-19.\nThe conversation also gets into one of the biggest assumptions surrounding entrepreneurship: that focus must mean doing one thing.\nIn this episode:\n• What separates parallel entrepreneurs from serial entrepreneurs\n• Why Tobias began studying founders running multiple companies\n• What \"strategic optionality\" means in practice\n• How successful founders divide their time, capital, and attention\n• Why knowing what you don't know is a critical leadership skill\n• The role of trust and talent when managing several ventures\n• What Tobias observed when COVID-19 disrupted the entrepreneurs he was studying\n• Why some founders become more opportunistic during uncertainty\n• Mark's \"pause, pivot or pursue\" decision during the pandemic\n• Whether resilience can be developed\n• Why the economic impact of parallel entrepreneurship may be larger than we currently know\n• Why younger generations may increasingly become parallel entrepreneurs\nIf you've ever been told you need to choose one business, one idea, or one path, this conversation offers another perspective.\nAbout Dr. Tobias Kutzewski\nDr. Tobias Kutzewski is an interim finance...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GFjjD1lfhpKjrRFvBYjircTm7KmxUyXiCMmVziPGajg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMTUw/ODg2ZjMyN2I5YjZj/ODFlMDU2MGI2ZTA4/Zjc2My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}