8. Jason Foster from Ori Biotech - You Are Not Your Company, and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth, Belonging & Culture Trump Strategy, Running as a Business Not As A Founder, Building Trust with New CoFounders, Having Tough Conversations Early

With me today is Jason from Ori Biotech. Ori has raised $140M and is helping to enable widespread patient access to life saving cancer therapies. Jason also sits on the board of 5 other healthcare startups and has been a part of 3 healthcare scale up journeys prior to Ori. In this episode: 1) Jason’s Path to Ori Startup Blowup in the Dot Com Bust Scaling Teams Internationally Getting Back to Small Teams 2) Running a Company as the CEO not the Founder From Angel Investor and Advisor to CEO How to Create a Successful Advisor Relationship How to Build Trust with a new Co-Founder The Importance of Self Awareness in Defining Roles & Responsibilities Having the Tough Conversations Early 3) Setting the Right Culture so People Feel They Belong  Culture and Belonging is More Important than Strategy Framing Feedback as Making Us All Better Talent Density - Retaining and Attracting the Best Talent Culture in a Mission Driven Organization How Mission Drives a Sense of Urgency Internally Hybrid Culture in Scientific Settings 4) Surviving the CEO Startup Journey Views Across Being an Investor, Board Member and CEO Technical Founders Creating a Narrative versus Selling Technology Best and Worst Part about Being a Founder You Are Not Your Company - and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth Take Care of Yourself - for You and Your Business Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices