Think Like A Founder

"I grew up on a farm. It was more of a ranch than a farm, with a bunch of apple trees and every morning I'd wake up and there was this little white pad of paper with scribbled chores that we could barely read. We were never bored. Bored is lack of imagination and especially growing up on this ranch, we had no connectivity. We had no internet. It was just us in our imagination and dirt an...

"I freaking love the chaos. Like I think I was born for war time, more than I was for peace time. When all the rules are out, that's when I feel like I'm the most excited and most like alive." SNP co-founder Maureen Taylor talks to Chris He, co-founder and CTO of Bravado about elevator push-ups, flying cars, and how he was built for chaos.  Think Like A Founder is produced by S...

"I found that there was this small association based in Switzerland, the North Korean Friendship Association. So I reached out to them...I was very honest, like, hey,..I would like to develop my own idea of that place and see it...And that's always something that I try to do in my life..before believing the stories that people tell me. Try to gather evidence from both sides and develop m...

"When I was in middle school I wanted to be a broadcast journalist, which is humorous and I was obsessed with Katie Couric and this is, you know, the heyday of when she was on the today show and I did a book report on her. My mom still has it." SNP Communications founder Maureen Taylor sits down with Heidi Zak, co-founder and CEO of ThirdLove, a women’s underwear company, created by wome...

"So I think the biggest difference between somebody who's a founder and somebody who isn't is that there's no longer an off switch when you're a founder." On this episode of Think Like A Founder Maureen talks to Roderick Morris, co-founder of Lovevery, a child development toy company. Roderick talks about how becoming a parent shifted his approach as a founder, his ti...

"I am a 30 year old woman without a bio degree proposing to do these crazy projects about engineering biology and creating new biological functions in an office of electrical engineers, mostly men, all forties and 50s and one of those individuals said to me, we're still trying to figure out what you're doing here... I'm here to do what I came to do" On this episode of Thin...

“There’s a guy named Dave Smith. He was the first Disney archivist, and I’ve been reading his stuff for twenty years now, and that’s what I wanted to do when I grew up. I wanted to be the librarian at the Disney archives, which is a really weird thing.” SNP’s founder Maureen Taylor talks to Greg Koberger, founder and CEO of ReadMe, about the difference between a CEO and a founder, the inspiration...

Think Like a Founder is a series of conversations with leaders, thinkers, inventors, revolutionaries, problem-solvers, and smart, nice people. Hosted by Maureen Taylor, co-founder of SNP Communications, this podcast dives deeper into a founder’s mindset and mentality -- what makes them tick? The curiosity. The relentlessness. The crazy. The sacrifice. The loneliness.  Think Like A Founder is produ...

"We find holes in the ground and then we…explore them. And it kind of feels like maybe what Neil Armstrong felt like when he first stepped foot on the moon." SNP’s founder Maureen Taylor talks to Cindy Wu, co-founder of Experiment and Jelly Labs. They talk about how Hawaii has changed how she designs software, her belief in science equity, and her unusual love of caves. Think Like A Foun...