Only Way To Fail

Meet Garret, Tyler, Darin, and James and follow as they get into the behind the scenes fun, adventure, and struggle of scaling a quick-growing high-tech startup.  This week, introductions, our unlimited PTO, and my vacation! 

00:01 - Inaugural Lead-In to OWTF 

00:58 - Host Introductions and Bio’s (what we wrote and what we really meant)

Tyler Samples an engineer at heart

Garret Richardson is NOT shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals

James Maes cheats and uses the same bio across every platform

Darin Kelkhoff from “birth to present day”

06:28 - Weekly Headlines and Recap

What happens when a startup CEO takes a month off?

13:47 - Key Topic - Unlimited PTO

What is really meant by Unlimited PTO?

How it went from “shunned” to EXPECTED in Infoplus

26:21 - Meta Discussion - What do each of us want out of “OWTF”

Could there be a Beers and Blues with Tyler podcast spinoff after episode-0?

Darin amazingly ties this to Star Trek Picard?

38:36 - James manages to use the word “gear” 6 times in ~20 seconds

39:31 - 1st End of the Show 

Darin “sings us out” (not close to as great as Bill’s version. Yet…)

James tells everyone to “smash that like button” 

40:14 - After Show featuring Darin Kelkhoff and his “Random Star Trek”

“Scott McNulty discusses a randomly selected episode of “Star Trek” — all series, all seasons — with a non-random guest.”

Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

40:55 - 2nd and final End of the Show

Tyler Samples Review

“The first episode is ‘Really Kinda Really Rough’. James you are a quick talker! Don't recall thinking that when recording heard a couple cuts in his PTO thoughts but nothing terrible’”

Garret’s Wife’s Review

“ James a little hard to hear / understand, needs to be a little more conversational in the transitions. Tyler and Garret sound clear. Kept me engaged the whole time. Darin goes into quiet ‘102.5 Dalyla voice'’”

James’s Mother’s Review

“ Wow! I loved your podcast. Can’t wait for the next one. Also loved when you said that probably only your mothers would listen