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Managing Weekends as a Founder & Dad and 'First Team' Parenting | Patrick Thompson (Dad of 1, co-founder of Clarify)
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Patrick Thompson is a three-time founder, starting a company right after college and then founding and selling his second company, Iteratively, to Amplitude in 2019. He stayed on as a Director of Product until leaving recently to co-found his third company, Clarify, a next generation CRM platform. He’s a loving husband and the father of one kid. In today's conversation we discussed:
* How to manage a young family with starting a company
* The differences between his last startup when he wasn’t yet a parent and this one
* Having the conversation with your partner about getting back to building
* Investing in your relationship with your partner
* The concept of “first team” and applying that at work and home
* Rituals for quality time with your kids
* Recharging his batteries as both a parent and founder
* Top tips for airplane travel with an infant
* A potty training disaster story
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Where to find Patrick Thompson
* Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickt010/
* X: https://twitter.com/patrickt010
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In this episode, we cover:
[1:36] Welcome
[1:48] Shout out to his co-founder Austin
[2:18] Why start a company while having a toddler?
[3:26] How has being a dad changed your company-building approach?
[5:11] Childhood
[7:44] Athletics compared to startups
[10:16] How did you meet your wife?
[11:40] Decision to start a family
[12:52] Decision to leave Amplitude and start a company
[16:45] Investing in your relationship with your partner
[18:58] Applying “first team” at home
[20:05] Taking an 18 month old on an airplane and top toddler travel tips
[22:42] Earliest memory of becoming a dad
[24:48] Most surprising aspect of fatherhood
[25:55] Mistake you made as a dad
[28:30] Advice for pre-kid era Patrick
[30:15] Advice to ignore
[31:32] Rituals in a busy life
[33:19] How to manage weekends as a founder
[34:20] Frameworks for parenting
[36:34] An area Patrick and his wife don’t agree on in parenting
[38:46] Relationship Patrick wants his son to have with technology
[40:51] What he’s given up to become a dad
[42:18] How to recharge your batteries
[43:32] Family favorite trip
[44:59] Follow along Patrick’s journey
[45:45] Rapid Fire
[51:41] Thank you
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Show references:
Amplitude: https://amplitude.com/
Clarify: https://www.clarify.io/
Boy Scouts: https://www.scouting.org/
Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/
Siqi Chen’s on Startup Dad: youtube.com/watch?v=I2Nm5Mkj0s0
Immad Akhund’s on Startup Dad: youtube.com/watch?v=FR2ws9UKJ2k
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