A bootstrapped founder prioritizes employee mental health above business growth. The company lets staff work from home if they can justify it, and the founder doubled down on supporting those who stayed when others left.
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Tell me, uh, you are managing a team right now. Managing a business is, I mean, difficult, and you are completely bootstrapped. How do you take care of everything around you, including your employees' well-being and your personal well-being as well?
Um, so I— there's a pecking order to this. Employee welfare, employee mental health, and employees' well-being is always above Fortunately, we had— we slowly and steadily, the way when we started building a culture inside the company that we are going to stay startup, we are going to work like this. This is the kind of attitude everybody should carry. Whatever you do, be relaxed. Nobody is going to question you until so far as you know that you are doing this for the larger good. And a small example, there is no, no restriction for our employees to come to us. They can choose on themselves to take work from home. All they have to do is, and somebody happens to ask, "I was looking for you the other day in the office," all he has to tell, make a good reasoning in front of the person that this is why I chose to be at home and not here. So that That way, once we started building this culture inside the company of taking care of yourself, your actions, be altruistic to the work that you are doing for the larger good, slowly and steadily we had people departing from our company. And we had a couple of people coming closer to the core of the company. And that is where I knew that I had to take care of the mental well-being of the people who have stayed there.