Finding Balance in Parenting and Professional Life

Scott Belsky is the Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Design and Emerging Products at Adobe. He took on this role after being Chief Product Officer for their flagship Creative Cloud products. In 2006 Scott founded a company for creative professionals called Behance which he later sold to Adobe. He is also an active angel investor having invested in companies like Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Warby Parker, Ramp, Airtable and more. He’s a loving husband and the father of three kids. In today's conversation we discussed:

* How his perspective on building now incorporates his family

* Advice to founders who are starting a family

* Supporting his wife as a co-founder

* Fostering creativity in kids and observing where creativity comes from

* Support systems necessary for maintaining busy lives

* How AI has already changed the world for kids

* What AI is going to do for education

* The philosophy behind his wife’s company, Good Inside

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Where to find Scott Belsky

* Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbelsky/

* X: https://twitter.com/scottbelsky

* Scott’s newsletter: https://www.implications.com

Where to find Adam Fishman

* FishmanAF Newsletter: www.FishmanAFNewsletter.com

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/

* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/

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In this episode, we cover:

[1:48] Welcome

[2:14] Has your business perspective changed since having a family?

[3:51] Advice to founders starting a family

[5:16] Family

[6:04] Wife’s co-founder role

[8:15] Decision to start a family

[10:05] Fostering creativity in kids

[12:00] Favorite picture 

[13:18] Most surprising thing as a dad

[14:35] Support systems in busy lives

[17:12] How has AI changed the world for kids?

[19:26] What is AI going to do for Education?

[22:20] Advice for pre-kid Scott about becoming a dad

[24:28] Advice to ignore

[26:49] Good Inside philosophy

[28:36] Mistake you mad as a dad?

[29:41] Where do him and wife not align?

[30:38] Follow along

[32:16] Rapid fire

[34:56] Thank you

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Show references:

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/

Uber: https://www.uber.com/

Carta: https://carta.com/

Warby Parker: https://www.warbyparker.com/

Ramp: https://ramp.com/

Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/

Adobe: https://www.adobe.com/

Behance: https://www.behance.net/

Columbia: https://www.columbia.edu/

Good Inside: https://www.goodinside.com/

Harriet Tubman: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-tubman

Michael’s: https://www.michaels.com/

North Fork River, CO: https://northforkranchguideservice.com/north-fork-of-the-south-platte-river/

Frida Baby: https://frida.com/collections/baby

Crib camera: https://www.amazon.com/Monitor-5Display-Pan-Tilt-Zoom-Temperature-Lullabies/dp/B09GM8JZM9/

Emirates: https://www.emirates.com

Blues Clues: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163929/

Forrest Gump: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

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