{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Startup Dad","title":"Why I Stepped Down to Spend More Time With My Son | Ankit Gupta (Dad of 1, Founder of Bicycle Health)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6baa6bce\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4852,"description":"Ankit Gupta is the Founder of Bicycle Health, a company he built and led for nearly nine years before handing over the CEO role and becoming a stay-at-home dad. Before Bicycle, Ankit co-founded Pulse while at Stanford, a news app that caught the attention of Steve Jobs, was famously pulled from the App Store later that same day, and was eventually acquired by LinkedIn.\nHe’s also a dad of one, with a two-year-old son, and the husband of a transplant nephrologist in the middle of a demanding fellowship. After years of being pulled toward building companies, Ankit found that pull shifting toward his family. He joins Startup Dad to talk about the 18-month process of stepping away from Bicycle, the turbulence and FOMO that came with trading founder life for full-time parenting, and why he believes some of the best things parents can give their kids are simply time, love, and room to be bored. We discussed:\nChoosing fatherhood over founder life: How Ankit spent 18 months deciding to step away from Bicycle Health and follow a new pull toward being more present with his son.\nThe transition from CEO to stay-at-home dad: Why leaving startup life created unexpected challenges, from losing daily feedback loops to adjusting to a completely different pace.\nWhy time and love matter most: How Ankit believes parents can get caught optimizing everything, when simply being present is what matters most.\nRethinking modern parenting pressure: Why Ankit pushes back on overscheduling kids and the constant pursuit of efficiency, and what boredom can teach children.\nUsing AI to understand parenting: How Ankit used Claude and ChatGPT to research parenting philosophies, map different approaches, and build his own framework.\nBuilding with AI for yourself: How a personal parenting experiment became a public tool and showed what is now possible with AI-powered creation.\nWhere to find Ankit Gupta\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta00/ \nX: https://x.com/gankit\nWhere to find Adam...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/F_yCls74GdKLzmfCUXKoHwqOZKN_mFb5zL7jtAWlzzU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYjMx/Yzg1NmIzMjBiZmE4/ZGFiM2ZjMjQ2Yjcy/OTY2OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}