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Glen Moriarty
@glenmoriarty1 · CEO, 7 cups
We created the startup support system with Erik, Dan, and several others because startups are incredibly challenging. People involved in startups often feel alone, stressed, anxious and depressed. The larger culture can message that startups are easy. Founders can feel pressure to always signal that they are “crushing it.”
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Glen Moriarty
@glenmoriarty1 · CEO, 7 cups
We created the startup support system with Erik, Dan, and several others because startups are incredibly challenging. People involved in startups often feel alone, stressed, anxious and depressed. The larger culture can message that startups are easy. Founders can feel pressure to always signal that they are “crushing it.”
Unfortunately, these factors make … See more
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
Anxiety. Depression. Burnout.
We don’t really talk about it. Many people go through it, but most people suffer alone.
We want to kickstart a conversation in tech around stress and mental health, and to create a space where it’s okay for people to feel depressed and to talk about it. These feelings aren’t just okay, they’re human.
Wrote about it more in th… See more
Brian Wang
@brianmwang · Product, Credit Karma. CEO, Fitocracy
This addresses one of the most important challenges that too few people talk about in startup land. Thank you for putting this together.
Andrew Yates
@ay8s · iOS Developer at Buffer
Love this, definitely think we should be spending more time taking care of one another. I know that @joelgascoigne often blocked out a few hours in the week to chat to other founders to help them and has recently started to pick this back up. :)
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@Glenmoriarty1 jump in the conversation and tell us more about 7 cups of tea, how this all came about, and your goals for it.