Brett J Fox - Lessons from a True Operator

You know, for example, let's say that your CTO or your VP of engineering leaves and he or she is the technical brains of the business. Now what do you do? I mean, you could lose everything in that situation, and that happens, and then you have to scramble. You have to find somebody else to replace that person. So you have all of those dynamics to deal with. Then you also have the dynamics to deal with. Okay, we're building a business, and where are we going to get money for this business? You know, and that's likely to be at the beginning. It's going to be your money. It's going to be friends, money, your parents, money, family.

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Brett Fox, and Brett is a entrepreneur, former CEO of Touchstone Semiconductors, and currently a coach. Can you tell us a little bit more about what you find yourself doing most of these days?