Remote Well

Today, my guest is Ryan Kuder (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankuder/).

Ryan is the Managing Director at Techstars Anywhere (https://www.techstars.com/programs/anywhere-program/).

Techstars is a global startup accelerator with a combined market cap of over $18B. They’ve funded companies like DigitalOcean, ClassPass, Bench, Plated, Localytics and SendGrid, which was acquired for $3B.

Traditionally, the Techstars accelerator programs are city specific, but Ryan is in year 3 of an experiment to operate the program remotely with the founders who are accepted.

Ryan is a 17-year tech veteran, having served as both a founder of several startups, and an executive at many more, including ecoATM.

To round out his career even more, Ryan previously held marketing and product roles at both Yahoo and eBay.

Speaking personally, I can tell you that Ryan is like a poo poo platter of startup wisdom and experience and I’m thrilled share our conversation with you today.

Today, my guest is Ryan Malone (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmalone/).

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of SmartBug Media (https://www.smartbugmedia.com/)

SmartBug is the #1 rated inbound marketing agency and a Diamond HubSpot partner.

Ryan started the agency over 10 years ago when building a distributed team was something that most people thought was absolutely crazy.

Now approaching 60 full time employees, Ryan and his team are redefining what a successful agency looks like.

In this episode, we cover:

-The terrible former boss that influenced Ryan’s future cultural values

-How SmartBug has scaled their recruiting while running a distributed team

-How SmartBug completely shuts down 1x per quarter to crush professional development

And much more

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