Exploring Hobbies and Work-Life Balance

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The chapter delves into casual conversations about hobbies like photography and skiing, emphasizing the importance of taking breaks. It touches on networking with other founders for stress management and shares personal anecdotes and coping mechanisms. The discussion also covers self-care, leadership qualities, incident management tools, and reflections on acquisitions in the software industry.

Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!

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