If you're an early stage company, you can't afford to bring on a cofounder who doesn't get the job done. Which means your selection process needs to be on point, and you need to be willing to go the Malcolm X "by any means necessary" route to assemble the right team. In this week's episode, networking app Pod.io Founder Dr. Jo Webber shares her wild story of assembling a global founding team which included having to literally ask the question, "If we travel there, are we going to make out alive?" Learn what it really means to go the distance and in the process reassess just how much effort you've put in to assembling your own team, and what you can do differently moving forward. Pod.io launched in early 2019 and already has 5 million users. Jo also touches on how they were able to acquire so many users so quickly.

Find Pod.io on all social platforms @networkwithpod, and head to https://www.startuphypeman.com/articles/dr-jo-webber-podcast for the blog post written by Dr. Jo Webber about the backstory of Pod.io..

Plus -- stick around until the end for the launch of our brand new segment Startup Open Mic, where founders like you submit a 60 second elevator pitch for live feedback by me! This week's Startup Open Mic: Roady.

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