All Who Wander with Anne Taylor Hartzell

Mike + 10 Trips: Prioritizing family time + intentional tradeoffs

Episode Summary

"Intentional tradeoffs" w/ Mike Fridgen, serial startup founder, entrepreneur + co-founder of Madrona Venture Labs.

Episode Notes

How Mike Fridgen, serial entrepreneur, company builder, dad, and co-founder of Madrona Venture Labs, a startup studio based in Seattle, found his way through a career and created space for 10 epic family trips in 10 years. 

In this episode you will learn: 

• How Mike founded his first company at just 19 years old as a student at the University of Washington and has since founded, launched, sold, and advised countless startups.
• The lessons he has learned about the importance of patience and making intentional tradeoffs as a busy dad + executive
• How his passion for innovation, working with amazing people, and spending intentional moments with his family drives his passion for his work and life.
• How a simple notepad and a glass of wine with his wife one summer day turned into an epic family travel plan of 10 trips in 10 years.  (hint: just a few on the list include Africa, Japan, Australia, Peru, Vietnam and Cambodia)
• Why travel, prioritizing big adventures  and the trip planning process has become an important part of their family's DNA

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 Travel talk starts @ 25:15

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Links from this episode:

Madrona Venture Labs

@mfridgen  on Twitter