If building a startup is an arduous journey, finding the right people to grow with you is another mountain to climb. Ideas can meet product, but both of these need to meet the right team to live the vision. But how to find the folks who are as passionate as you in helping build great ideas? What should the benchmark be like? That’s exactly what we’ll navigate in this video about building teams and culture.
Padmini Janaki, Founder & CEO of @Mind and Mom talks to us about her journey from thinking about a pregnancy welfare app idea to actually executing it as a product and brand over the pandemic.
We discuss:
00:00 Intro
01:16 Representing Tamil Nadu (India) at World Economic Forum, Davos
04:05 The tech scene at Davos and Padmini's observations
08:20 The inception for Mind and Mom: How did it start
11:15 The importance of co-founder and how to find one
16:30 Mapping the skills of your co-founder with yours
17:30 Treating product as the main focus
20:20 Finding the first set of employees to join you and setting the culture
25:28 Why team culture and values are important
28:20 What should new founders need to know about legal processes
31:07 Navigating the remote–hybrid team structure
36:42 What founders often tend to miss in their journey
Books that Padmini recommends:
Lean UX
Chaos
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