A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video (August 1, 2023) where Jason M. Lemkin and another speaker discuss founder burnout and mental health. The exchange highlights chronic tiredness, depression among founders, and practical mitigation: delegating work (hiring or finding a VP) and leveraging team support, with Lemkin referencing his experience at EchoSign/Adobe Sign.
Have you ever had it where the founders just tired? I think depression, mental health, tiredness to get chronic tiredness is more and more a problem. Have you ever had it where the founder's burnt out and how do you deal with that?
It's fire literally. Last week I had the conversation with a great founder that almost wanted to throw and throw in the towel and mental health and everything. These are important issues. If you're a founder and you're burnt out and you're up to here, right, your stress level and everything drops 34 it's not to nothing to find this VP that could carry some of the load, right? And again when that founder sent me the email over the weekend, the first thing I'm going to talk to him about is okay, who can we find on the team or outside they can carry some of the load, right? And back in the old days at Echo Sign, Adobe Sign, I had three of those and I didn't appreciate how great it was.
