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Founding Fathers™
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Conversations worth coming back to

Ideas on fatherhood, building companies, and doing both well.

Present Fathers with Davis Collins

Episode 03

Andrew sits down with Davis, a dad of two girls who left a 10-year gym job after his second kid to go out on his own. They talk about presence over providing, putting the phone in the other room, context switching between work and family, and how kids mirror the way parents talk to themselves.

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Balancing Fatherhood & Startups with Stephan Chenette

Episode 02

Stephan has been building his company, AttackIQ, for 13 years. It now has 200+ employees across time zones, and he's the dad of a four-year-old boy and a one-and-a-half-year-old girl. We talk about trade-offs instead of sacrifices, why your kids become a mirror, building self-care into the family's day, and his advice for founders thinking about becoming dads (and dads thinking about starting a company).

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The room behind the writing

Founding Fathers is a club as well as a show. We cap each chapter at 50 so the room stays a room. Tell us about your company and your kids. We answer within a week.

How it works
  1. 01Read what we ask of every member.
  2. 02Answer a short application. About four minutes.
  3. 03Hear back within a week, either way.
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