This is Founding Well, a new kind of startup newsletter.
Rather than covering tech trends, deal flow, or business strategy, this newsletter is about what it feels like to build a company as a human being.
We explore the quieter, more personal realities of entrepreneurship: our values, motivations, and challenges, the pressure and expectations, and what it means for us to find joy and fulfillment in building something new in the world. ✨
Everything always comes back to relationships 🤝
“In the end, our ability to interact with one another, connect, understand, help one another–all during our brief time of being alive on this earth–just feels like a core thing we should be focusing on.”
The good that came from a data breach 🦷
“We're going to get through this. It's okay. And… It's not going to be fun. But then that quote comes back, ‘This too shall pass.’ It's going to pass like a kidney stone, but it's going to pass.”
Dealing with FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt 🧗
“Being an entrepreneur and in an ownership position, you are the core function of the company, and that's important to me. I don't like doing things that I don't feel are moving the needle in any way.”
A startup born from wedding stress 🌼
“I was really focused on bringing beauty and creativity into my life, and then hoping that something would come out of it. I wanted to try and merge tech entrepreneurship and flowers, and it all just kind of came together.”