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As a counter example, my wife started a company when she was pregnant with our second child, and then raised millions of dollars in her first round when the chi
by cle 5y ago
As a counter example, my wife started a company when she was pregnant with our second child, and then raised millions of dollars in her first round when the child was a few months old. The company is still going strong and she is prepping to raise another round. And our child is a beautiful, happy toddler now.
- r00fus 5y agoThat's impressive - if you don't mind me asking - how much did you get involved to help out or were you 100% focused on work as well? If the latter, did you outsource (nanny) at all?
- cle 5y agoI helped at the very beginning before she had a CTO, built an alpha version that we tested with customers (which led to a very different product). This was while she was pregnant, we worked nights after we put our kid to bed, and I took some time off of work to help too. Our kid is older and was in school at the time, so wasn't around the house during weekdays. Sometimes on Sunday my wife would watch our kid while I hacked away. This was pre-COVID. She found her CTO a couple of months after our second child was born and I haven't been involved since. Shortly after she found her CTO, they raised their first round. (More context: we did not have much money lying around, no family to donate money to us, nor did either of us have any experience starting a company.)
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThat’s very impressive. I can’t imagine how that’s doable based on my experience of wife’s breastfeeding and sleep schedules.