FounderQuest What, Me Worry? Fearing Your Company's Permanence
Show notes:
Links:
Rollerblade Chair Wheels
"The Fear" - Build Your SaaS podcast
Full transcript:
Ben:
So, I just moved back into my office after being away for six months, because COVID.
Starr:
I see that.
Ben:
And in the meantime, though, I had all my stuff at home. So I had my podcast setup, I had my monitor, my chair, everything. And while I was at home, I bought these new roller wheels for my chair, you know the ones that look like a roller blade wheels?
Starr:
The ball bearing ones.
Ben:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And at home I have a normal carpet. It's not shag, it's just standard carpet. But here I have those plastic things you put down so you can roll easier.
Starr:
Yeah.
Ben:
And so at home I didn't really notice much difference on those wheels on my carpet, but here it's really slippery, so now I'm sliding back, and forth, and all around. It's kind of fun.
Josh:
Nice.
Ben:
So, if you want something to entertain yourself, get some of those roller blade wheels for your chair, and then make sure you're on a smooth surface. It's hilarious.
Josh:
Yeah, yeah that's still on my list. I totally want to do that. I mean, I have wheels on my chair now, but it would just be a smoother ride. I feel like I could do some... Have some fun with that.
Starr:
What are you doing? Are you riding in your chairs? What are you doing in your chairs?
Josh:
Oh yeah. You don't like-
Ben:
You got to do something while you're running all those tests.
Starr:
Yeah.
Josh:
Just you can do spins, and...
Starr:
Y'all must have much more space than I do.
Josh:
Bounce off the walls.
Ben:
Next month I'm going to install a half pipe.
Josh:
All right.
Starr:
Well, now I'm only moving my chair around and I'm wondering is it moving easy enough? Do I need a smoother action on that?
Josh:
You need a performance chair. That's right.
Starr:
All right, well before we get started I should make a little announcement. This will be our last episode for a little while. I know I just scared y'all.
Josh:
Yeah, are you trying to-
Ben:
That's scary.
Josh:
... put people on edge?
Starr:
Yeah, for a little while, because, yeah, a bunch of us have leave coming up, and it's just going to be impossible to make it all work. Yeah, and we don't record podcasts while we're on vacation, because that's just, that's bad.
Josh:
And breaks are nice.
Starr:
Breaks are important, yeah.
Josh:
It's good to take a break.
Josh:
Yeah.
Starr:
It'll let our listeners not be tired of us anymore. They'll forget all the things we repeat all the time.
Josh:
Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, yeah, when we come back you'll have forgotten everything we say, and we'll just start from the beginning.
Starr:
Yeah.
Josh:
I think our plan is to come back with some fresh topics, and-
Starr:
Some fresh topics-
Josh:
... fresh attitudes.
Starr:
Oh, really? Okay, well.
Josh:
We'll see. We'll see how the election goes.
Ben:
That's one of the benefits of going on vacation, right? Is get that fresh attitude.
Josh:
Well, I think we'll see. This will be after November 4th, or whatever.
Ben:
Right.
Josh:
It's 4th, right? Yeah so, we'll see how our attitudes are.
Starr:
That's not the reason for this little break.
Josh:
No.
Starr:
But it is a benefit that we just don't have to be on the record.
Josh:
Yeah, listening to own cynicism in 10 years.
Starr:
Yeah, live covering this terrible last month.
Ben:
So awful.
Ben:
Can I just chip in on that for a second.
Josh:
Get it in now.
Ben:
We've tried to avoid being overtly political and stuff, but that made me think again about the stay in your lane comment, that some people like to throw at other people. Like, "Oh, you're a tech guy you should stay in your lane." We talked about this before, but that's just hogwash. We're all people, right? And we all have opinions, and we should all be able to share them in ways that are helpful, and ways that are critical, but ways that are always kind. I don't know. I don't buy this whole stay in your lane, you should only talk about X thing. I think we all have opinions about stuff, and we should feel free to share them.
Starr:
For that to be true it's like the sum of your humanity would be tech guy, which would be pretty sad.
Ben:
It would be.
Starr:
Right?
Josh:
Yeah.
Starr:
It's like all of us are more than tech person. Anyway...
Ben:
Agreed.
Josh:
Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Ben:
Agreed. Sorry, soapbox.
Josh:
Well, I think what we're saying is vote. Please vote.
Ben:
Please vote.
Starr:
There you go. Yeah.
Josh:
I mean, we got to get it in, get our-
Ben:
Yes.
Starr:
We're all just terrified.
Josh:
We're just doing our part.
Starr:
We're literally spending the next, I don't know, six weeks just in our closets. Okay, well. So we just did our Q... What is this? Q4? Q4 Conclave?
Ben:
Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Josh:
Yeah. Final of the year.
Starr:
Yeah, normally, in normal times, we get together in an undisclosed location in a meeting room called the bunker. I'm being serious. And we have a big long all day meeting, in which we hash out what's going to happen with Honeybadger for the next quarter, and so since pandemic started, we've been doing this on Zoom, and so it was spreading out over days, because an all day Zoom meeting would just be like hell on earth. And yeah, so here we are, and we are so... That one went pretty smooth. There are no big changes, we got it done pretty quickly, we got it done in two days under schedule, which made me really happy.
Ben:
Yeah. My wife asked about that. She was like, "So, you doing another day of conclave?" I'm like, "No, we're done." She's like, "What? You're already done?" I'm like, "Well, yeah. This was shorter than they had been in the past." And I was thinking, "Why is that?" And I was like, "Well, our Q4, our plan basically is to try and wrap up stuff, nail down some of the things we've been working on." And there wasn't really any big new initiative, or big decisions we had to make, it's like, "Oh, well just do that in Q1." Right? Right now, it like we're coasting through the end of the year, I think, is the plan.
Josh:
Well, let's be honest. October is basically over. It's basically already November, so we're already halfway through the quarter.
Ben:
Is that pandemic time?
Josh:
I think so, yeah, but I mean, honestly we are, a lot of us are taking time off in October, and we're also probably going to take a lot of time off in December, like we always do. So realistically, we're not making major plans, I don't think, for any huge initiatives.
Ben:
True. True.
Josh:
It was really nice to finish something for the year. Can I just say that? It ...