Think Like A Founder

SNP co-founder, Maureen Taylor talks to Mainul Mondal, co-founder and CEO of Ellipsis Health. Ellipsis Health uses artificial intelligence to identify depression and anxiety through natural speech patterns. They are committed to solving the unmet needs of mental health for everyone. In this episode, Mainul and Mo talk about how creative outlets developed his curiosity as a child, democratizing mental health care, and how empathetic listening is fundamental to his mission.

www.ellipsishealth.com
http://bit.ly/Ellipsis_Health_Authority_Mag_Article

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

SNP co-founder Maureen Taylor talks to Stefan Richter and Claudia Dietze, co-founders of freiheit.com technologies, a software company based in Germany. They believe in creating digital platforms to enable a better future for everyone. On this episode of Think Like a Founder, they talk about curiosity, grit, and how honesty is key to their co-founder relationship.

www.freiheit.com/en/

Product Management Leadership Program with SNP and freiheit.com technologies: www.now.snpnet.com/pm

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes, and Renn Vara.

"Anj:
I saw a little spark in Brit. And I actually remember saying to Dave, like, I want to hang out with that girl that we met, I wished all the dudes would talk a little bit less at this dinner so that I could get to know her a little better.

Brit:
There was the love at first sight thing that we saw in each other. But I loved that she also seemed like a curious person who was scrappy learning how to do things. And so that was the start of our beautiful friendship and professional relationship."

SNP Co-founder Maureen Taylor talks to Brit Morin and Anj Temple, co-founders of Brit + Co, a digital media company with online classes and products that seek to inspire and educate women. They talk about how they met on a couples' blind date, the yin and the yang of their co-founder relationship, and how creativity is an instinct we all have.

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. 
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

"I finished college and actually got an internship, not a full time job, cause I wanted to travel for a year and I had this specific, crazy idea of wanting to go to the South pole and the way to get there. I got hired as a dishwasher to wash dishes at the research station there."

SNP’s co-founder Maureen Taylor sits down with Chris Hulls, co-founder and CEO of Life360. Life360 is a family safety app with over 25 million users that offers you peace of mind, with location sharing, support from live agents, and immediate access to 24/7 emergency dispatchers. Chris joins Mo from his home in a small town called Point Reyes, California, where his office is under a large tree alongside his chicken coop. They talk about going to the South Pole, driving a tractor on his lunch break, and how he didn’t actually want to be a founder.

www.life360.com 

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. 
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

"I'm bored if there's not a problem, which is why running a company is, you know, amazing slash heart wrenching. And it's why I say to the team all the time, it's, you know, don't expect there not to be a problem on the other side of this one. Cause there will be, it's just a different one. Um, and the fun is how are we going to solve it?"

SNP Communications co-founder, Maureen Taylor sits down with Aneeqa Kahn, founder and CEO of eporta, wich helps designers manage their interior design projects in one place and source high-quality products from small businesses.

On this episode of Think Like A Founder, I talk to Aneeqa Kahn about helping her Dad with his small business as a kid, her love of problem-solving, and how good design makes people happy - even if they don’t know it. 


Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. 
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

On this episode of Think Like A Founder, Maureen talks to Ann O’Dea––Co-Founder and CEO of Silicon Republic, an award-winning online publication for science and technology news. Silicon Republic also runs an annual event called "Future Human," formerly "InspireFest," bringing the top minds from technology, science, and the arts together.  Hear Ann talk about her chronic shyness as a child, how the only way to do business is with integrity, and her love of birdwatching.

www.siliconrepublic.com
www.futurehuman.xyz

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. 
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

"I was everybody's emergency contact in college. I had friends who I was the easiest person to put down as their emergency contact because their parents were in other States or didn't speak English that well. And so I would usually find out after the fact, they're like, 'Oh, I went skydiving and I put you down as the emergency contact.' I was like, thanks?!"

On this episode of Think Like A Founder, Maureen talks to Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of 137 Ventures. 137 Ventures is a VC firm that invests in growth-stage companies, like Wish, SpaceX, Airbnb, Uber, and many more. They talk about about his grandfather's work at the New York stock exchange, building a team with the right people, and how he got his first taste for venture capital while working at Founders Fund, with friends from Stanford.

www.137ventures.com

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco, California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas.
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

"For the first time I felt I couldn't come even close to being perfect. I just decided to let go and not try to be the best student in the class, but rather just listen and learn and understand, and also in a way, enjoy myself without that pressure."

On this episode of Think Like a Founder, SNP’s founder Maureen Taylor talks to Karla Gallardo, co-founder and CEO of Cuyana, a sustainable women's fashion brand based on the mantra, fewer better. They talk about about her childhood in Ecuador and making her own clothes as a girl, her first job on wall street and how she feels a responsibility to do good in the world.

www.cuyana.com

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. 
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

"As I was approaching the end of my twenties, there was more of this idea that I could keep moving and I could keep looking at the world as if the grass was green or somewhere else."

SNP’s founder Maureen Taylor talks to Taj Campbell, co-founder of Tonari, a technology company creating high quality life-sized video and audio options for remote working. They talk about his almost getting fired from Google, how Japan’s bullet trains inspired how he built his company, and the importance of family.

www.tonari.no/en/
www.medium.com/straylight

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. 
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

"Does virtual connection actually make us crave physical connection more? Yes, without a doubt. I, for one, am very much looking forward to being able to hug people and kiss people again when the future, you know, when, when that's safe to do. So there's something about physical presence, whether it's in a place or with people that you just cannot replicate it with the very best of technology."

SNP co-founder, Maureen Taylor talks to Hicham Alaoui, co-founder of Experience Morocco about the importance of co-founder relationships, wanting to be the Morococan Ambassador to the US as a kid, and growing up with Clifford the Big Red Dog. 


Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.