Crazy Wisdom

Crazy Wisdom

Online course for startup founders to raise money for a distributed team

July 22, 2019 · 16 min

MP3 · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

About this episode

If you are interested in applying for an online course I'm running with Anders Jones on how to raise money for a distributed team check out this 15 minute episode.

We go over the crazy amount of value we are offering in this course including:

How to raise money

How to build a distributed team

How to build a hypergrowth business

How to establish creative constraints which make employees more effective

Episode transcript
Stewart Alsop III00:01

So, welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest here is Anders Jones, and we've got a special little content we're going to do about our upcoming online course where I'm going to interview Anders about what he's doing at Facet wealth, how he just raised $40 million in his seed in series A. Welcome to the show, Anders.

Anders Jones00:19

Thanks. Great to be here and great to do this in person.

Stewart Alsop III00:21

Yeah, for sure. Last time we actually did an interview, maybe a long time ago, like a year ago.

Anders Jones00:25

Yeah, it was fun. I was talking about meditation and how that sort of works into flow of building a company, which is.

Stewart Alsop III00:33

And that was super interesting because that was right before I switched the theme from interviewing founders about their meditation practice to stress and creativity, what role stress plays in the creative process.

Anders Jones00:42

Yeah, I think the two kind of go hand in hand, Right? Yeah.

Stewart Alsop III00:45

And you've thought about that since then. Right now you're thinking about stress and how to actually stress can be useful in an organization, correct?

Anders Jones00:54

Yeah, absolutely. So it's an interesting thing that I've really sort of taken to heart. So I work with a coach, and he's really sort of giving me this analogy that I love, which is, like, if you think about sailing, you know, sometimes you let the sails out when the wind is strong. You let the sails out and just kind of let the wind do its work. And then when the wind is not so strong, you actually have to put a lot of tension in the sails in order to make the boat go. And I think it's a really interesting analogy because if you think about how startups go, you have sort of a lot of volatility. And sometimes times are great, sometimes times are awful. Sometimes that change happens in the course of, like, six hours. But I think as a leader and a CEO, one of the important things to do is to keep your finger on the pulse of, okay, is it time to sort of let the winds blow, or is it time to actually put some tension into the team? And so I've been playing around a lot with that, and, yeah, there's a lot of useful stuff in there.

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