After 15 years in corporate strategy, Speaker B quit in fall 2016 to start a company with no startup experience. He joined the Founder Institute for structure and mentorship, looking for a 30/60/90-day plan to launch.
What stage were you at when you started the program or when you applied, and what was the biggest reason why you joined initially?
Yeah, so I, uh, I quit my, uh, corporate job, 15 years strategy corporate job, in fall of 2016, and I was just about thinking how to get started with the company, where to start, uh, in sort of like coming from corporate background. I was— I didn't have any startup background, so it was more about what is this startup building experience look like and where to start. It was really like where to start and how do I create a plan for the next 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, like how to get everything off the ground. And so I, right after I quit my job, I applied for Founder Institute and got accepted luckily to the, to the program that was starting in a couple of months right after. So for me, it was really, that was really the experience. The reason. It was more like, I'm coming from corporate life, I don't know what's going on in the startup world. How do I get support and process and program that get me off the ground and kind of get me in the groove of starting the company? And yeah, that was, that was it. That was where it all started, basically.
