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. Host, Maureen Taylor (or Mo, as most know her) started SNP Communications with her husband, Renn Vara more than 25 years ago, during the birth of Silicon Valley. Since then, they've been behind the scenes, supporting the world's top companies to grow and mature through the art of authentic communication.Mo looks at what it means to think like a founder. Why? Because, she believes great leaders can change the world.
SNP co-founder, Maureen Taylor talks to Mainul Mondal, co-founder and CEO of Ellipsis Health. Ellipsis Health uses artificial intelligence to identify depression and anxiety through natural speech pa…
SNP co-founder Maureen Taylor talks to Stefan Richter and Claudia Dietze, co-founders of freiheit.com technologies, a software company based in Germany. They believe in creating digital platforms to …
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I saw a little spark in Brit. And I actually remember saying to Dave, like, I want to hang out with that girl that we met, I wished all the dudes would talk a little bit less at this dinner so t…
"I finished college and actually got an internship, not a full time job, cause I wanted to travel for a year and I had this specific, crazy idea of wanting to go to the South pole and the way to get …
"I'm bored if there's not a problem, which is why running a company is, you know, amazing slash heart wrenching. And it's why I say to the team all the time, it's, you know, don't expect there not to…
On this episode of Think Like A Founder, Maureen talks to Ann O’Dea––Co-Founder and CEO of Silicon Republic, an award-winning online publication for science and technology news. Silicon Republic also…
"I was everybody's emergency contact in college. I had friends who I was the easiest person to put down as their emergency contact because their parents were in other States or didn't speak English t…
"For the first time I felt I couldn't come even close to being perfect. I just decided to let go and not try to be the best student in the class, but rather just listen and learn and understand, and …
"As I was approaching the end of my twenties, there was more of this idea that I could keep moving and I could keep looking at the world as if the grass was green or somewhere else."
SNP’s founder Mau…
"Does virtual connection actually make us crave physical connection more? Yes, without a doubt. I, for one, am very much looking forward to being able to hug people and kiss people again when the fut…
"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 ba…
"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-…
"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 …
"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 di…
"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 Maure…
"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, a…
“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 a…
"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 Cind…
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 Communicatio…