This week James gets fired as CEO, hired back as a DevOps engineer, and then makes his way up the corporate ladder to be CEO of Infoplus all in a day. At the same time, Garret learns how to fly to the moon, Tyler discovers how to vacation, and Darin falls in love. All of this and more as the team works through another tough week scaling the company and having fun along the way.

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Garret hires James back to Infoplus?

Tyler’s back (but still on vacation)

00:01:11 - Show Start

A show about three nerds and a business guy and the daily struggles, fun, and adventure of scaling a high-tech startup

00:01:29 - Follow-Ups (with fun new lead in)

What is our 16th Commitment / Learning Calendar

Session with Dr. Karla Scott (St. Louis University) scholar on race and communication

She has all the credidations...no...credentials...no...ACCREDITATIONS...Yes!

Real time follow up on the session

Lots of anxiety across the team

Fear from James

 Laying the foundation - environment shapes perspective

Living in Simulator?

Rocket Fuel Update

Company Rock Progress

Listener Brandy Feedback

Don’t break major news to your wife via Podcast

Revisionist History

Firing Clients...really?

00:24:30 - The Headlines

Darin:

Kids back at school

Barking Dogs

Tiny Violins

Mom & Dad quality time

James -

Can you operate on (-) negative points

Board fighting…

Shifting in Radical Responsibility

Get bigger or smaller (no staying the same)

Upward Death Spiral

Exit Plan / Transitioning Out

Rocket Fuel F.U.D.

Own it / Sky’s the limit

Tyler - 

Completely unplugged Vaca

Exceeded “200 output” barrier!?!?

Garret

ToDo Not Done - Renegotiating impeccable agreements

LTM - 4+ Rating overall

Tough IDS Session leads to Tiger Team

00:46:52 - Topic 2 (1) - Fundraising

It’s Time, Grow or Die, All the Fear

$$ is the number 1 impediment to supporting growth

Pouring Gas on the Fire

Burning $4MM 

Back of napkin math

Inflection Points

V1 - Create a Product

V2 - Create a Business

V3 - Create an Outcome

Excitement may outweigh the fear

00:65:00 - Q&A

Send in questions and we’ll be able to actually have this segment!

[I assume we’re so clear and articulate they may simply not exist]

00:66:24 - End of Show (The Sing Out)

Embrace the awkward silence (radio gold)

00:68:40 - After Show

Darin goes “Deep Nerd” on “Deep Space Nine”...nope Discovery)

Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes

Show Notes by Garret Richardson

Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff

Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott