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Chewse CEO Tracy Lawrence on growing both as a company and a founder

2019/10/21
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Tracy Lawrence 分享了她创立 Chewse 的历程，从最初的兼职到最终建立起一家拥有 280 名员工的公司。她详细阐述了 Chewse 的商业模式，包括与当地餐厅的合作、技术创新以及独特的“批量购买”策略，这些策略帮助 Chewse 在竞争激烈的餐饮外卖市场中脱颖而出。她还分享了 Chewse 的公司文化——“爱之公司”，强调了在公司中建立真实连接、开放沟通和互相支持的重要性。公开薪资制度、每周的感恩活动以及对员工心理健康的关注都是“爱之公司”文化的重要组成部分。Tracy Lawrence 还谈到了她在融资过程中遇到的挑战和经验，以及如何克服自身的不安全感，最终获得投资者的认可。她强调了保持真实和坦诚的重要性，以及建立强大支持网络对创业者的帮助。最后，她鼓励女性和少数族裔创始人勇敢地追求自己的梦想，并相信现在是创业的最佳时机。 Ben 和 David 作为主持人，引导 Tracy Lawrence 分享了 Chewse 的发展历程、商业模式、公司文化以及融资经验等方面的内容。他们与 Tracy Lawrence 就产品市场契合度、公司文化建设、创始人心理健康等话题进行了深入探讨，并对 Tracy Lawrence 的创业理念和公司文化表示赞赏。

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Tracy Lawrence, the founder and CEO of Choose, discusses how she started the company after identifying a market opportunity in corporate food delivery. She explains the company's mission to drive authentic connection in the workplace through family-style office meals from local restaurants.

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"You can call it paranoia, or you can call it innovation. The language doesn’t matter if the feeling is the same. This is all an experiment I’m running eight years in: How do I update my mindset to want to approach things by activating the pleasure center more than the pain center?  I’m more likely to move away from pain and towards pleasure. So why don’t I make innovation a game and bring play to, literally playfulness, into it? I see too many founders burn out because they have lost playfulness in their culture." – Tracy Lawrence, @chewishgirl

Tracy Lawrence, founder and CEO of Chewse (@chewse) takes us on the journey of how and why she founded Chewse. Tracy, Ben, and David discuss most of the traditional topics (early days, product-market fit, mission alignment), but spend most of the time talking about non-traditional topics like mental health, vulnerability, and love for company and self. If you’re a founder, this episode will perk both your IQ and your EQ. For everyone else, your faith in the future of tech might get restored. Enjoy!

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