#076 – Becoming Better Leaders to Build Better Companies with Keegan and Cameron of Torch.io

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Cameron Yarbrough (@yarbroughcam) and Keegan Walden (@keeganwalden) created a company that combines software and coaching to help leadership teams improve their job performance in a measurable way. In this episode, we discuss how they've applied their own teachings to their roles as founders, and how they've grown to become to the kinds of people who can work together to build a successful business.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/076-keegan-and-cameron-of-torch

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone?
0:08.6	This is Cortland from NDHackers.com, and you're listening to the NDHackers podcast.
0:12.9	On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.
0:18.2	How did they get to where they are today?
0:19.6	How did they make decisions at their companies companies and what exactly makes their businesses tick?
0:23.8	And the goal, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on
0:27.3	to build our own successful online businesses. Joining me in this episode are Cameron Yarbrough
0:32.3	and Keegan Walden, the founders of Torch. Torch helps leadership teams within companies
0:37.1	become better at their jobs
0:38.2	through a combination of software and coaching. It's pretty fascinating stuff, and I'm really
0:42.4	excited to get into it. So Cameron, Keegan, welcome to the Indiacers podcast. Thank you for
0:47.0	having us. Thanks so much. Cameron, as CEO, you've had 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur,
0:54.0	including creating and selling an e-commerce business. Keegan, you're the C years of experience as an entrepreneur, including creating and selling
0:55.0	an e-commerce business. Keegan, you're the C-O of Torch, and you have a PhD in clinical psychology,
1:01.0	10 years of experience as a U.X designer. And in the past, you've led a research team at a national
1:05.8	provider of behavioral health services. So you guys are really the perfect duo to start a company
1:10.3	that helps
1:11.1	leadership teams grow and become better at their jobs. How do the two of you meet and decide to
1:16.0	work on this idea together? Keegan and I met in a master's program in graduate school
1:21.3	for counseling psychology. I actually remember the first time we met, we met in the hallway
1:26.9	in between class.
1:29.6	He was this kind of towering man standing above me,
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