Ryan Janssen on Startups: The Lonely Entrepreneur, Collectively and the Borg

Ryan Janssen has been creating and leading companies for the last 20 years. His latest venture, Collectively, aims to improve the way people work. Ryan and Wendy discuss the lonely entrepreneuer, the challenges around working by yourself as well as how his company, Collectively, is evolving. It is a fun conversation for anyone who has worked by themselves, started a company or likes the Borg. Notes from the Interview lonely entrepreneur corporate culture sucks…talk in a way, dress in a way, interact in a way with people that just isn’t you companies provide colleagues socially isolated environment bipolar role — company cheerleader and risk mitigator challenges we’re all afraid to get our stuff in front of people rabbit hole w/o outside opinions fear inhibits success evolve based on experiments