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How Was Your Health While Building Fireflies.ai Before Getting Funding?

Name: How Was Your Health While Building Fireflies.ai Before Getting Funding?
Uploaded: 2020-06-09T21:31:50+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this brief personal reflection, the speaker discusses the mental‑health and physical‑health challenges faced while building Fireflies.ai on a…

9 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief personal reflection, the speaker discusses the mental‑health and physical‑health challenges faced while building Fireflies.ai on a month‑to‑month budget. He notes that his diet was merely "okay" but the lack of financial reserves caused significant stress, leading to deliberate health trade‑offs and a feeling of being constrained. After the company secured funding, he experienced a noticeable shift: a sigh of relief, the ability to breathe, and the capacity to think long‑term rather than merely survive. While the health compromises did not halt progress, the funding markedly improved his mental well‑being and outlook.

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So my diet was okay, but I will say that from like the mental health perspective of not really having any sort of budget to spend or any reserves in the bank and just kind of think like month to month, that was really difficult. I remember when we actually raised the funding last year, about a month after that I actually just started thinking a lot differently and I just could breathe a sigh of relief and start thinking more long-term, whereas before that there's definitely some mental health issues and purposely like limiting myself for things that I could have done. So yeah, I think there were some health trade-offs that I had to make, but overall nothing that, you know, stopped the journey.