Ep 81: What Every GC Should Know About Working With Founders with Sarah Irwin

How do you advise founders and learn to speak their language? Build a thriving legal community in Europe? And navigate the ups and downs of starting your own business?

Join Sarah Irwin, CEO and Founder of Irish Tech GC, as she discusses her career as a consultant for tech founders, adviser for GCs looking to build better relationships with their fellow executives, angel investor, and global legal influencer.

Listen as Sarah shares how she founded the Irish Tech GC community, why she decided it was time to leave her GC role behind and go all-in on her own company, how she leveraged LinkedIn to create enormous reach, and offers tips to GCs on how they can position themselves as business leaders.

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Topics:
Introduction: 0:00
What inspired Sarah to be a lawyer: 2:19
Assessing Dublin’s start-up landscape: 7:47
Working with founders at Tines: 9:44
Founding the Irish Tech GC community: 12:17
Seeing yourself as a founder: 15:12
Deciding to go all-in on your own company: 18:31
Operating a start-up and legal consulting practice: 20:01
Common mistakes that GCs make when working with founders: 21:51
Documenting the ups and downs of your founder journey on LinkedIn: 26:39
The best and most challenging parts of being a founder: 29:07
The future of Irish Tech GC: 33:01
Getting in touch with Sarah: 34:31
Rapid-fire questions: 35:15

Connect with us:
Sarah Irwin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-irwin-aa273064/
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn
SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft

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