Founder Mental Health

I was coding all night trying to be CEO in the day, and once in a while, would squeeze in a shower. Striking the balance between work and rejuvenation is something I still struggle with. My good friend, Joey Ito, will tell you so. Joey is the...

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To learn more about how CoreWeave powers the world's best AI, go to coreweave.com/ready for anything. Hey, folks. Jeff Berman here. Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we thought it would be a good moment to revisit Reid Hoffman's Hoffman's...

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In the same way that small iterative changes in a system can have huge impacts on efficiency, small course corrections in your culture can have a huge impact on wellness. It requires scale thinking. A general pattern to succeeding at scale is making...

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A founder cannot succeed unless they're obsessed with their company. And so part of being obsessed with their company means that it's what they think about on Saturday morning. It's what they think about when they end up with, you know, fifteen...

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And I believe that to survive your entrepreneurial journey, you have to learn how to recharge yourself. Call it balance. Call it wellness. Call it yin yang. Your business and your life depends on it. Entrepreneurship is grueling. So grueling that I...

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If I were to write a wellness article for Thrive, I would focus on how it is that we can make each other better, how we can improve our cognitive performance and our ability to make decisions and move fast by working together. And some of that is...

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And then finally, what we found is that insufficient sleep and its impact goes all the way up to the top of the business chain. The more or less sleep that a business leader has had from one night to the next, the more or less charismatic and...

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You should forgive yourself for these moments of delusion. Because you're an entrepreneur, optimism is your opiate. Treat yourself to as many hits as you need to survive the journey, but also recognize that every scale entrepreneur has a blind spot,...

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And what do you learn? Like, those this is just shocking to me because I talked to one yeah. One of the advisers we mentioned earlier, he's like, yeah. The day I sold my company was the saddest day of my life. I'm like, what? You know, as a 24 year...

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

So the laws by which we Ariana had been following up to that point were wrong, and she had sailed off the edge of the map to the place marked, here be dragons, a place where the infallible founder never expects to find themselves. Right now, we...

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20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for Founders with Pedro Franceschi

You know, again, the battle's on here. And I I think I'm it's a journey. I don't think I'm, like, there yet, but I'm definitely better than what I used to be. Do you think founders can be this open with investors? With the right ones, yes. I think...

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And so those are really helpful because I felt when I diagnosed, like, well, when I'm on this treadmill and just, like, firefighting or how did I miss this important thing, it's like, well, the basically, the root causes of of being on the...

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So on the one hand, I think he's the master of scaling, but on the other hand, I think he's just beginning to figure out how that ties into sort of taking care of himself and his life. In fact, it's my conversations on the subject with Joey and...

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Building the premium venture studio and fund for consumer brands with Mike Jones, Founding Partner @ Science with Mike Jones

A key metaphor that I use for entrepreneurship is that as an entrepreneur, you throw yourself off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. And a key element of that metaphor, which packs in a lot of things, is that by default, you're...

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Riding Unicorns

They're stressed out. Their team's stressed out. They're worried about capital. So, like, there's definitely times where you're like, oof, this is rough. This we gotta get through this tough time. Right? And I think anytime we're there, it's hard...

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She then argues for making well-being, wisdom, and wonder essential parts of how we think about success. The book was a hit. It caught the eye of Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba. And it was Jack Ma who first suggested that Ariana's...

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Thinking Machines’ RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152

Through machine learning, you know when an operator has received a particularly nasty customer call, which is going to make them be not as good on the next call and which is going to increase their stress. So their next call, which they expect to be...

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This Week in Startups

while they're dealing with the stress of hiring and building and going to market? Sure. Great. Great question. Listen. I I I'm, not an expert on, psychotherapy or dealing with mental health. So this is just one founder slash investor's opinion. I...

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And we've talked a lot about, like, yeah, first, you have to be aware of what your psychology is, and then how do you make sure you're not, like, resenting or hating your company or yourself and view. I think that the hardest thing for a founder...

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