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45% of founders rate their mental health as “bad” or “very bad”. Yikes. So how do you avoid burnout? A few successful founders gave us these tips for staying happy and healthy while scaling -- just hit see more. -Just because you can do it yourself doesn’t mean you should. Empowering people to lead is more sustainable. -Next time you’re frantically fighting what you think is a five-alarm fire, ask yourself: “Is anyone going to die?” Then take a deep breath. -Sleep. Eat right. Hydrate. Exercise. Your body can’t function at peak performance without the right fuel. -Ruthlessly protect your personal and family time. Being physically present does not mean you are mentally present, so be sure to give yourself dedicated breaks. -Accept help. Only 18% of founders regularly see a therapist, even though 39% suffer from depression and 76% deal with high anxiety. You’re not in this alone. These tips from Exabeam‎ co-founder Nir Polak‎ and Horizon3.ai‎ co-founder Snehal Antani‎ helped them stay sane while growing their cybersecurity startups. If you're a founder and want to talk performance, please feel free to reach out to me! And check our blog for more insight from SignalFire‎'s 12-part Performance Mastery Series I’m co-leading with Taylor Barada to help maximize our portfolio founder potential https://lnkd.in/ddU8KHRd

What will it take for Austin to become a tech hub that rivals San Francisco? Spoiler Alert: Not Elon Musk This year's SignalFire State of Talent Report found that Austin's tech talent population grew faster than any other city during the pandemic, with 23% growth in startup talent and 44% in big tech talent. Yet, San Francisco is still far and away the leader over any other tech hub by all volume measures. Ultimately, Austin is gaining tech talent share, but it's never going to be on the level of the SF Bay Area or Seattle because these are the birthing places of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon and many more. Austin has Dell Technologies and Indeed. Cool cool, but not same same. The best future for Austin, with its massive relocation movement during the pandemic, is to create a hot spot for **founders** (not mega CEOs) to come together and build the next household, world-changing company. If *you* build it, they will come. (and not in the performative and transactional way you see today, as Paulina Cachero of Bloomberg so clearly points out)

🚀 Freshpaint is one of the fastest-growing #HealthTech startups, growing revenue ~10X in the past year, but they’ve gone under the radar unless you’re a health data privacy wonk. 🛑 Regulators are cracking down on healthcare organizations for leaking sensitive patient healthcare data to Facebook, Google Analytics, YouTube, and more. Unfortunately, in 2022 about 30% of top hospitals were caught unintentionally sending private patient data to Facebook through web tracking tools. And now the FTC is hitting healthcare organizations with reputation-ruining multi-million-dollar fines. 💰 👍 Freshpaint is the best platform for protecting patient privacy while empowering high-performance marketing for leading healthcare organizations such as Yale and Baptist Health. That’s why SignalFire is thrilled to be funding Freshpaint and its founders Steven🚀 F. & Michael Malis as part of a $30M Series B round alongside Threshold Ventures, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and others. 👇 Wayne Hu and I wrote a blog to share more on why Freshpaint will help healthcare organizations harness all their data without risking patient privacy. And if you want to join a fast-growing healthtech company that’s protecting everyone’s privacy, check out job opportunities in comments below. 🙏 Huge shoutout to Mohana Ravindranath at STAT for covering this exciting milestone!

Who won and lost tech talent in the rise of remote work? NYC & Austin saw the biggest gains while Seattle & SF (still tech's top market) saw workers move out. NY's top cable news channel covered SignalFire's State Of Talent report that you can read here https://lnkd.in/gz49hasT Other top takeaways included: -Gen Z workers switch jobs 2X faster than Gen Xers -VCs are funding older founders, who are now 2X as likely to have 15 years of experience than a decade ago -Silicon Valley is winning the AI boom as funding and engineers flock to SF Here's a video I edited down with some highlights from NY1 News

I am very pumped to share that I joined SignalFire to invest in health and pharma tech! Healthcare has come a long way over the last several years, but so much exciting work still remains. New innovation coupled with the right business model offers the chance to catch disease earlier, accelerate therapeutic development, reduce the cost of bringing innovative medicines to market, and ensure their accessibility to all. There has never been a more exciting time to build in healthcare, and I look forward to partnering with founders who will reshape the industry. Thank you so much to Chris, Ilya, Wayne, Sooah, Yuanling, and the rest of the SignalFire team for welcoming me aboard. My dog Cooper and I are now SF boys — let me know if you want to nerd out on pharma tech or have any hike recommendations!

Ruli is Coming Out of Stealth with $2.2M pre-seed! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Ruli, the AI Teammate for In-house Counsels, is officially emerging from stealth with a $2.2M pre-seed, led by SignalFire! Legal teams shared that they’re often understaffed and overburdened, leading to bottlenecks and delays – and often the culprit is an influx of Legal FAQs and a flood of requests for legal review. There is a need for solutions at the intake and triage stage. We automate answers to Legal FAQs, instantly unlocking productivity for stakeholders and infuse AI to streamline intake and automated legal review. We designed these features to alleviate the pressures on in-house legal teams, while presenting important issues forward. Ruli enables legal counsel to focus on the most complex, high-risk and relationship-oriented aspects of their work. 🎉 Excited to share our interview with Rhys Dipshan at Law.com https://lnkd.in/gzVjzsHH ✨ More details on our blog post: https://lnkd.in/gcZGXJhk 📣 A big thank you to our investors, including SignalFire, Foothill Ventures, Genius Ventures, Mana Ventures, PJC, and Bruce Gibney, for believing in our vision. Wayne Hu, Eric Rosenblum, Theresa (Wei) Dai, Ben Taft, Nick Simmons, Morgan Schwanke, Matt Hayes, David Martirano, Max Martirano, Carlos Jesena, and our extended SignalFire team: Heather Doshay, Josh Constine, Libby Hadzima Perkins, Yamiletzy Garcia, Veronica Mercado, Sadasia McCutchen, Jim Stoneham 😃 Special thanks to my co-founder, CTO Xi Sun, Design leader Dan Birman, and our incredible advisory team, Claire Hart and Danielle E. Simmons! #ai #legaltech #legalops #founders