Rich White - Work at Home Rockstar
MMallory KassoySep 19, 2022 at 9:55 pm29min
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00:00Speaker 1
Are you a work at home Rockstar? Or do you dream of becoming one? Then you found the right podcast? Your host, Tim Willemsen talks with successful work at home rockstars to learn their secrets and help you in your journey. Are you ready to rock? Here's Tim.
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00:16Speaker 2
Hello, and welcome to today's episode of the working home Rockstar podcast excited for today's guest. He is the founder and CEO of fathom. And what they do is they've got an app that helps remote teams take notes automatically during their zoom meetings, so they can focus on the discussion at hand. Excited to be rocking out today with Richard White. Richard, you ready to rock?
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00:34Richard White
Red Rock Tim? Ready to rock?
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Good. So let's start off on a good note. So tell me a story of success in your business that we can be inspired by.
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00:42Richard White
Early in my career, I you know, I think I was really interested in doing this like one, this one sort of idea. And then I saw that it someone kind of launched that idea. And I was kind of bummed my coworker at the time showed me this like news clipping musical Be sure means is going to see this article online. And instead of kind of like, getting rejected by that actually cold emailed the people that built that, or building that app. And I emailed them and said like basically like your product is like, technically really impressive. But like design is really bad. And I want to be a designer and I think I can help you. And actually, you know, I was kind of just a random quality manner. And turns out, they actually read it then responded. And I ended up like working with them for you know, good amount of time. And actually, that was a company it was in the first batch of Y Combinator, which is like now this pretty famous, she's fun seed funding organization. And it kind of made my career. That's kind of how I met all the people I know now and you know, got me into startups.
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01:39Speaker 2
How, okay, you cold emailed somebody, a potential competitor, and ended up working with them. That's really, really cool story. Right on. Okay, so then, you know, that worked out really well. But sometimes things don't work out well. So we do talk about the bad notes. So tell me a story of something that didn't go as planned on your journey and how we can recover, avoid it.
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