Startup Therapy

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.”

Show Notes

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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Resources:

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

What is Startup Therapy?

The "No BS" version of how startups are really built, taught by actual startup Founders who have lived through all of it. Hosts Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan talk candidly about the intense struggles Founders face both personally and professionally as they try to turn their idea into something that will change the world.