Ryan Shank, a tech founder in NYC, runs through a packed day of product demos, office tours, team meetings, and customer calls. He gets an unexpected partnership email from New York Life Ventures for his company ShareWillow, and squeezes in an hour of executive coaching with Morgan between back-to-back meetings.
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Here's a day in my life as a tech founder in New York City. Let's go. Let's work. Yeah, I was going to ship it USPS, but honestly, the thing is too far, so I'd rather just ship FedEx. How much is it? I'm working on the largest style guide from the menu. Originally what I showed you was like a white— all right, um, check off, check off, basically like check off the things that they need to do in order to your company, what you're looking to do, uh, and then I can go over Share Willow. I just did a demo that like just wasn't a good fit. They were looking for commission software for a salesperson. They do e-com, so like some type of— You can say that I'm an evil on the internet. I am good. Thank you so much. Taylor is amazing and I appreciate it. Yeah, great chat. Send me an email. Let's do it. I'm ready to go. Cool. Yeah, yeah, see ya, bye. Great call, let's go. Alright, now we gotta go. I just got off the call with him, Zach. He used to work at IAC. Now, we're gonna go visit an office space at 46 Howard. We're gonna go see, 'cause we're trying to get new office space. See ya. Alright, we're walking to check out office space at 46 Howard. Me and Danielle, where is she? And we're gonna see how it is. It's a couple blocks from our current office. Hello. What's up guys? We're going to what unit are we going to? We're just here for a tour. Alright, we just got back from office tour, 46 Howard Street. We don't like it. We're not gonna get it. We're at Blank Street. We have weekly meeting right now where we go over big rocks, KPIs, stuff like that. Right after that, I have an hour-long meeting with my executive coach, Morgan. So we're gonna get into this meeting. Shit. Alright, thank you. Good meeting. Thanks. Thank you. See ya. Alright, team meeting with Danielle, Jack, done. Straight into a Zoom with my executive coach. So now, now it is 3:30. Into a Zoom, waiting for her to join this. But Zoom with my executive coach, I'm gonna play play the clip when it gets there. Let's go. No problem. Uh, how are you? Bye. And we're off with Morgan. Now it is 4:30. I'm gonna meet with Danielle one more time, uh, to chat about— holy crap, that was like 6 hours. Look at my calendar. Hold on, we just did this. Okay, we just did product stand-up. Meeting with Mary and the marketing person. Then I had a partnership meeting with Miter. Then I met with a customer, Cindy. Then I met with the founder of a company called Draftboard. Then I toured an office space at 46 Howard. Then I did a weekly meeting with Danielle and Jack called the weekly. Then I just did a coaching session with my executive. Okay, so now I need to create a job description for a marketing hire. And I also need to meet with Danielle and finalize travel plans for this conference. We're going to a conference next Tuesday. I also was supposed to do an an in-person meeting with Adam Liebman, one of my sales advisors with our sales team on Wednesday. But since we're going to this conference now, we need to reschedule that. He called me when I was on the phone with Morgan. So I need to call him back, reschedule that. Bye. How'd that go? Um, didn't get a meeting, so not good. But we're having conversations. Yeah, I know. Dude, all the activity is so good. I feel like, I feel like this is what we need. We just need the calls. We got Rough Roofing and Old American Construction booked. Hell yeah. How many have you booked? 2? So I just got this crazy email from the New York Life Insurance Company. Hi Ryan, hope you're doing well. I work over at New York Life Ventures, the corporate venture capital group of New York Life Insurance. I recently came across Sharewillow. It'd be great to learn more about your background, Sharewillow, and how you might partner with organizations like New York Life Please let me know if you'd like to connect. We can find some time over the coming— So like, they're just like massive insurance companies. This is the venture capital arm. So if they invest in us, potentially they're on the cap table, they're incentivized, and then they could help push us out to their agents. So there is 6:34 PM right now. Danielle's here. Jack's here. What time is it? 7:15? 7:10? 7 o'clock. All right, time to get out of here. All right, I'm leaving. All right, see you tomorrow. Later, see you. Let's go. All right, it's 7:05. Just left the office, about to get into this car right here, and then I am going to a 7:15 AA meeting. Let's go. So Ryan, Oh, sorry. Okay, this is the car. Hey, what's up? For Ryan? Yes. All right, I just got into the wrong car. All right, thank you. How are you doing? Good, good. It's the first time I've come to this meeting. So, um, if you— there's like a gate and you just press the button and they'll let you in and go all the way to the left. Okay, thank you. I will. Thank you so much. All right, vlog, I'm gonna end it right here. Going to this last meeting of the day, 715, uh, 47 Hudson Street. That was a good day. Thanks for coming along for the vlog. I kind of like vlogging again, uh, and just filming everything. So if you like this, can you like add a comment or a like or something so there's some engagement and I keep doing it? And if you hate it, just tell me that also in the comments so there's engagement. So peace.
