Episode 493 | A Roundtable Discussion about COVID-19, Working From Home, Payroll Protection and More

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is a round table discussion with Craig Hewitt (founder of Castos), Einar Vollset (cofounder of TinySeed), and myself. We are in three different cities on two different continents, so we have plenty of different perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis. We are talking about our own businesses and the advice we give to other founders. We also talk about the payroll program, and whether we think it's going to be helpful to small businesses and startups. We share our tips and experiences working from home, for founders who may be just now transitioning to a remote team, and we discuss Stewart Butterfield's Twitter feed, talking about the human side of experiencing this pandemic. Listen to get some insight, hope, and fresh ideas on being a startup during COVID-19. The finer points of the episode: 8:09 - Advice we all have for startups during the COVID-19 crisis 12:51 - Common mistakes we see businesses make working from home 14:42 - The main things that change when your team goes remote 17:37 - The payroll protection program in the USA and what this could mean for your business 28:04 - Stewart Butterfield's real-time experience of COVID-19 and how it resonated with each of us as founders 36:46 - Some reasons to feel hopeful about business right now Items mentioned in this episode: RougueStartups Castos TinySeed How Apple Is Working From Home Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers MicroConf article on COVID-19 business relief Stewart Butterfield's Twitter feed Craig Hewitt's Twitter Account Einar Vollset's Twitter Account

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. This is episode
0:04.0	493. It's a startup roundtable with Craig Hewitt, Ainar Volset, and myself. Anar was able to fill in last minute.
0:12.3	I had another guest who unfortunately had to cancel, and Craig was willing to work with me to shift times around.
0:18.7	It's an interesting discussion because we're located in three different cities on two different continents. And so we're able to give each of our
0:25.5	takes on how things are in our city, how they feel amid the coronavirus pandemic. We talk about
0:32.0	how our businesses are looking and reacting as well as advice we're giving to founders. Talk about
0:36.9	the shift to work from home
0:38.4	look at the payroll protection program and talk about you know the fact that the you know essentially
0:44.0	that money has run out as of today when we're recording and then we dig into a tweet thread a really
0:49.1	interesting day-by-day account of stewart butterfields who is the founder or co-founder of Slack, and he talked
0:57.0	about how they're reacting to it and all that stuff. So it's a really interesting show today.
1:00.2	I'm glad you're here to check it out, and I hope you enjoy my conversation with IntervalSet
1:04.3	and Craig Hewitt. So welcome back to another startup roundtable. We're going to talk about
1:09.5	variety of topics today. I'm really
1:11.4	excited to have my two guests on the line, Anar Volset, co-founder of Tiny Seed. You and I talk quite a bit,
1:19.1	but it'll be fun today to get your opinion and thoughts on some stuff. How are you feeling today?
1:24.1	It's been pretty good. You know, all in all, you know, still locked down, but what can you do?
1:28.5	Yep. And you're calling to us from Santa Cruz, California. That's right. And my second guest is
1:35.5	Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos. Podcast listeners have heard from you many times on this show,
1:41.4	as well as on your show, startups has it going today sir yeah doing
1:45.7	well thanks rob calling to us from france so we got a pretty pretty good perspective a lot of time
1:52.0	zones on this call and and three different cities that are probably in three different phases of
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