The Best of Startup Dad 2024 - Scott Belsky, Nir Eyal, Tod Francis, Immad Akhund, Siqi Chen & more!

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Today I’m releasing the best of Startup Dad from 2024! Across over 50 hours of conversations, hundreds of topics, and approaching 100 Dads (and Moms) I’ve covered a lot. In this episode you’ll hear from dozens of executives and founders like Scott Belsky of Adobe, Immad Akhund from Mercury, Siqi Chen from Runway, Chris Miller from Hubspot, Lane Shackleton from Coda and Adam Nash from Daffy. You’ll also hear best-selling authors and experts like Sean Ellis, Nir Eyal, Linda Flanagan and “Dad Brain” expert Darby Saxby alongside some lesser-known founders and solopreneurs who are making it work or sometimes just barely surviving.

The goal of Startup Dad has always been to learn something new about parenting and to normalize hearing more successful male leaders talk about their families—the struggles and the successes.

In this episode highlights include:

• The role of technology and artificial intelligence in our kids’ lives

• The importance of modeling the right behavior & how to recover when you don’t

• How to partner successfully with your significant other

• How we approach our own aging parents

• Navigating cultural differences inside your family

• Building companies while raising kids

• How to approach paternity leave as a startup founder

• Defining and creating quality time

• Whether work/life balance is possible, a myth, or should be re-thought entirely

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In this episode, we cover:

[1:49] AI/Tech & parenting

[7:56] Talking to kids about over-reliance on AI?

[8:57] What's the most interesting thing that one of your kids has done with ChatGPT?

[19:46] Tech parents limiting kid’s access to tech

[21:53] Modeling behavior

[33:15] Adult children & relationships

[41:18] Aligned & disaligned w/ partner in parenting

[55:45] Raising families with cultural differences

[1:09:25] Parenting & Startups

[1:28:52] Paternity leave as a startup founder

[1:30:23] Partnership

[1:52:33] Healthy habits & kids

[2:01:39] Being present

[02:23:39] Cooking as a Dad

[02:27:39] Difficult times/adversity

[02:49:50] Frameworks

[3:20:10] Nurturing kid’s growth

[03:41:10] Thank You

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Show references (more coming soon!):

Harriet Tubman: https://www.biography.com/activists/harriet-tubman

Gundam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam

Transformers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers

ChatGPT: chatgpt.com

Troomi: https://troomi.com/

Inside Out 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22022452/

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bringing-up-b-b-pamela-druckerman/1111325335

Episodes Referenced:

Scott Belsky: youtube.com/watch?v=3SKpsGBYwcE
Kevin Hannaford: youtube.com/watch?v=ShD_P9fCwts
Ethan Austin: youtube.com/watch?v=jxNU_BAC9o0
Dan Doty: youtube.com/watch?v=xmF2htq2MKk
Linus Ekenstam: youtube.com/watch?v=NIJDVGUQrJ0
Siqi Chen: youtube.com/watch?v=I2Nm5Mkj0s0
Chris Miller: youtube.com/watch?v=9TlpdCCof90
Jordane Guily: youtube.com/watch?v=SI-TKN1W1-k
Carlo Navarro: youtube.com/watch?v=19-YI8OukPI
Kevin Hanaford: youtube.com/watch?v=ShD_P9fCwts
Matt Ragland: youtube.com/watch?v=Bz04HgHcQcE
Ethan Austin: youtube.com/watch?v=jxNU_BAC9o0
Nathan Jefferson: youtube.com/watch?v=sL3BL9zY3Oc
Rob Taylor: youtube.com/watch?v=y5c4Fgpn3Go
Darin Swanson: youtube.com/watch?v=M2NB2G9OECI
Sean Ellis: youtube.com/watch?v=SYi6xHcMQmE
Martin Glover: youtube.com/watch?v=3zghatBo_Ic
Bianca Shulze: youtube.com/watch?v=jelUrKlv6OY
Immad Akhund: youtube.com/watch?v=FR2ws9UKJ2k
Nir Eyal: youtube.com/watch?v=GqogSRDhzeU
Brian Rothenberg: youtube.com/watch?v=MY5Ph4N4RCc
Mike Smith: youtube.com/watch?v=HldXH7_2D30
Martin Pannier: youtube.com/watch?v=GXMobJLtX3s
Patrick Moran: youtube.com/watch?v=BQAJrWYdOyE
Tye Degrange: youtube.com/watch?v=BVs8FnMNIQI
Andrew Capland: youtube.com/watch?v=1p-4ir53gZc
Phil Carter: youtube.com/watch?v=elcZ7IiM73k
Patrick Thompson: youtube.com/watch?v=qDbmT4AgizQ
Adam Nash: youtube.com/watch?v=MaOCL5WSzhc
David Lat: youtube.com/watch?v=nnyeq_0z1sE
Eric Bahn: youtube.com/watch?v=LaV5DEgkB8Y
Kyle Lacy: youtube.com/watch?v=KbBdVw-ncyQ
Dave Boyce: youtube.com/watch?v=ytl2ZX8oHJY
Luke Millar: youtube.com/watch?v=BugNTPG0xb0
David Haddad: youtube.com/watch?v=4iL_9JO7vP4
Darby Saxbe: youtube.com/watch?v=WBvgqimMv6E
Matt Wensing: youtube.com/watch?v=CVxcs86HCpU
Linda Flanagan: youtube.com/watch?v=YLqEX8lZeFI
Yousuf Bhaijee & Chris Lloyd: youtube.com/watch?v=M3ZOVy1wjp8
Lane Shackleton: youtube.com/watch?v=eQDiJJoPfMQ
Rob Schutz: youtube.com/watch?v=g611gCs4g0A
Ryan Bozarth: youtube.com/watch?v=6lkkXHqh714
Tod Francis: youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFYEpFSi3A
Stew Bradley: youtube.com/watch?v=0iyEAdzLr78
Carla Naumburg: youtube.com/watch?v=qcrzFhbeIVs
Michael Perry: youtube.com/watch?v=AP6JJhiFfK4
Eben Pingree: youtube.com/watch?v=e8cnEiUCo-A

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