Jason Foster from Ori Biotech - You Are Not Your Company, and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth, Belonging & Culture Trump Strategy, Running as a Business Not As A Founder, Building Trust with New CoFounders, Having Tough Conversations Early, Per
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With me today is Jason from Ori Biotech. Ori has raised $140M and is helping to enable widespread patient access to life saving cancer therapies. Jason also sits on the board of 5 other healthcare startups and has been a part of 3 healthcare scale up journeys prior to Ori.
In this episode:
1) Jason’s Path to Ori
Startup Blowup in the Dot Com Bust
Scaling Teams Internationally
Getting Back to Small Teams
2) Running a Company as the CEO not the Founder
From Angel Investor and Advisor to CEO
How to Create a Successful Advisor Relationship
How to Build Trust with a new Co-Founder
The Importance of Self Awareness in Defining Roles and Responsibilities
Having the Tough Conversations Early
3) Setting the Right Culture so People Feel They Belong
Culture and Belonging is More Important than Strategy
Framing Feedback as Making Us All Better
Talent Density - Retaining and Attracting the Best Talent
Culture in a Mission Driven Organization
How Mission Drives a Sense of Urgency Internally
Hybrid Culture in Scientific Settings
4) Surviving the CEO Startup Journey
Views Across Being an Investor, Board Member and CEO
Technical Founders Creating a Narrative versus Selling Technology
Best and Worst Part about Being a Founder
You Are Not Your Company - and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth
Take Care of Yourself - for You and Your Business
Find out more at https://kindredcapital.vc/FoundersUncut (KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut)
This podcast was produced by https://fascinateproductions.co.uk/ (Fascinate Productions)
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