The Founder's Mindset

Sep 05 2023 19 ep. 44 mins 8
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The Founder’s Mindset explores the minds of young entrepreneurs through the early days of founding a company. While challenges are inevitable in business, how we respond to them can be the difference between success and failure.

Each week, clinical psychologist Dr Gena Gorlin will sit down with different guests at various stages of founding their company. They will discuss the obstacles they have faced on their journey and the behaviours and mindset they used to overcome them.

Then Gena, alongside co-host Alice Bentinck, will debrief on these challenges and analyse the learnings we can all take from their experiences to hopefully avoid making the same mistakes.

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S3 | E6: Passion, Purpose, or Both? Lessons From Conversations With Founders

Sep 05 2023 43 mins  
In the final episode of season 3, Alice and Gena reflect on the five conversations they've shared. We hope you’ve found these conversations as valuable and thought-provoking as we have. Subscribe to The Founder’s Mindset so you never miss an episode. This is a podcast from Entrepreneur First. Learn more at joinef.com Thank you to Woolly Mammoth Media for consulting on and p

S3 | E5: Founders Need Community Before Advice

Sep 05 2023 58 mins  
In this episode Gena and Alice had the pleasure of speaking with David Booth, the founder and CEO of OnDeck—a curated community designed to increase your odds of building a successful venture-backed company. Now, if you're thinking that sounds a bit similar to Entrepreneur First's mission, you wouldn't be far wrong. Both organizations share a belief that the world is missing out

S3 | E4: Supersonic Flight and Why Big Ideas Aren't Crazy

Sep 05 2023 55 mins  
In this episode, Alice and Gena spoke with Blake Scholl, founder of Boom Supersonic. Described by The Guardian as 'the man who aims to bring the son of Concorde to the skies', Blake is on a mission to bring supersonic commercial passenger flights to the world as soon as 2026. Why, you ask? Well, since Blake never got the chance to fly on the Concorde himself, and nobody appeared

S3 | E3: Founders Are People Too! Lessons From The Founder Coach

Sep 05 2023 48 mins  
This episode is a little bit different and a particular delight for Gena, because she got to talk to one of her colleagues and direct inspirations: Amy Buechler—who is not a startup founder herself, but rather a psychotherapist turned executive coach. And not just any executive coach, but one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after coaches, having served as Y Combinator’s fir

S3 | E2: Exits, Execution and Emotional Battles

Sep 05 2023 51 mins  
In this episode, we spoke with Brett Kopf, a serial entrepreneur at the intersection of fintech and education. In 2011 Brett founded 'Remind', a tool designed to improve communication between teachers and parents. Remind has since grown to over 30 million active users, and is used by 80% of teachers in the United States. Remind has raised $60 million to date from the likes of Nava

S3 | E1: Brain Food, Fathers and Building in Public

Sep 05 2023 54 mins  
In this season we’re bringing you a veritable feast of bold and inspiring entrepreneurial guests, from the founder who’s building the world’s first commercial supersonic aircraft, to one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after founder coaches. And this time no topic of conversation or exploration is off the table. En route to discovering the mindsets and strategies that have

Are You What You Build? Lessons From Conversations With Founders

Sep 29 2022 45 mins  
When you’re someone who’s as ambitious and driven as founders tend to be, it can be hard not to merge your personal identity with your company - despite all advice to the contrary. No-where has this been clearer than the conversations we’ve had this season of ‘The Founder’s Mindset’ .In this episode, Alice Bentinck and Gena Gorlin reflect on the insightful conversatio

S2 | E5: Wanting it All, or Nothing at All: A Case for Being 'Married to your Work'

Sep 07 2022 66 mins  
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S2 | E4: The Psychology of Serial Entrepreneurship

Aug 23 2022 76 mins  
What are the psychological building blocks that support a serial founder’s journey from ideation to massive growth to acquisition, to building again—and again? On this special episode of The Founder’s Mindset, Dr Gena Gorlin is joined by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Keith Schacht, who has founded and sold 4 technology companies. His latest, Mystery Science, was being u

S2 | E3: A Study in Opposites? The Real (and Counterintuitive) Makings of a Strong Co-founding Team

Aug 10 2022 59 mins  
How do two very different co-founders reconcile—even leverage—their differences in motivation, temperament, and working style? Jack and Rob, the co-founders of social sports prediction platform Herd, join psychologist Dr. Gena Gorlin to explore the core ingredients of a functional co-founder relationship, and what they've done to turn their differences into a feature rather th