Crazy Wisdom
How do you tell your investors you have cancer? - Michael FitzGerald (CEO of Submittable)
- Entrepreneurship & Startups
- terminal cancer
- startup leadership
- health disclosure
- entrepreneurship
- end of life
- business management
Here are the questions we discuss in this episode
How do you tell your investors that you have "terminal" cancer? How do continue to run a company?
How do you find your north star either as an individual or for your company?
What is the difference between creativity in the business sense and in the artistic sense?
Find more on Michael here: https://twitter.com/M_A_FitzGerald
Find more on Submittable here: https://www.submittable.com/
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This episode was quite a interesting one for me to do because it was a normal interview up until about 45 minutes in. And then my guest, Michael Fitzgerald drops that he has terminal cancer and had been diagnosed with this. Said he had a certain amount of time to live and then we were talking after that certain amount had passed already. So it ended up being a lot longer than normal for my normal podcasts, but really, really, really interesting and hopefully valuable, particularly if you might be going through cancer or if you have had a loved one who is going through cancer at the end. Michael gives some really important information for those people who are suffering from it. And this interview is definitely, definitely why I am really, really set on doing this podcast for a long time and getting this wisdom out. Because Michael is dealing with something that a lot of us will end up dealing with or will have family members who are dealing with. And it's real and it's important for us to work with this and understand that this happens to a lot of people. You know, I'm, I'm getting older. I'm not, I'm not old by any means of the word, but I'm getting older and it's obvious that life changes and life ends and so it's personal for me to work with these things as well. And with that being said, I hope you enjoy this episode. If you do, please find us on itunes and leave a review or just subscribe and you can find me on Twitter ewartalsop iii. I'd love to hear what you think about this episode and any of the other episodes. I do hope you enjoy it. So welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest here today is Michael Fitzgerald. He is the CEO and co founder of Submittable.com, the world's leading cloud based application and sub submission management platform. Their software is used by over 9,000 publishers including the LA Times, New Yorker, Harlequin, MIT, TechCrunch, NPR and Playboy. And Submittable went through YC and they're now based in Missoula, Montana and they've been going at it for about 10 years. Welcome to the show, Michael. Really excited to have you on.
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