8. Jason Foster from Ori Biotech - You Are Not Your Company, and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth, Belonging & Culture Trump Strategy, Running as a Business Not As A Founder, Building Trust with New CoFounders, Having Tough Conversations Early

Founders Uncut: Real Startup Stories
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8. Jason Foster from Ori Biotech - You Are Not Your Company, and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth, Belonging & Culture Trump Strategy, Running as a Business Not As A Founder, Building Trust with New CoFounders, Having Tough Conversations Early

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Episode Synopsis

With me today is Jason from Ori Biotech. Ori has raised $140M and is helping to enable widespread patient access to life saving cancer therapies. Jason also sits on the board of 5 other healthcare startups and has been a part of 3 healthcare scale up journeys prior to Ori.
In this episode:
1) Jason’s Path to Ori

Startup Blowup in the Dot Com Bust

Scaling Teams Internationally

Getting Back to Small Teams


2) Running a Company as the CEO not the Founder

From Angel Investor and Advisor to CEO

How to Create a Successful Advisor Relationship

How to Build Trust with a new Co-Founder

The Importance of Self Awareness in Defining Roles & Responsibilities

Having the Tough Conversations Early


3) Setting the Right Culture so People Feel They Belong 

Culture and Belonging is More Important than Strategy

Framing Feedback as Making Us All Better

Talent Density - Retaining and Attracting the Best Talent

Culture in a Mission Driven Organization

How Mission Drives a Sense of Urgency

Internally Hybrid Culture in Scientific Settings


4) Surviving the CEO Startup Journey

Views Across Being an Investor, Board Member and CEO

Technical Founders

Creating a Narrative versus Selling Technology

Best and Worst Part about Being a Founder

You Are Not Your Company - and it Shouldn’t be Your Entire Self Worth

Take Care of Yourself - for You and Your Business


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