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How Not to be a Founder
🎙 How Not to Be a Founder – The Darkly Funny Podcast About Startup Failure 🎙
💀 Startups are hard. Failing is harder. But at least we can laugh about it. 💀
The brutally honest podcast exploring the dark, funny, and painfully real side of startups.
Forget the LinkedIn flexes—this is where founders share their biggest mistakes, worst decisions, and absolute dumpster fire moments. It’s raw, vulnerable, and laced with enough dark humour to make the chaos bearable.
How Not to be a Founder
Claudia Green: Rock-Bottom to Resilient—Hiring Truths & Founder Mistakes | Ep 04 – How NOT to Be a Founder
Claudia Green went from agoraphobic teen to boiler-room recruiter, then hit absolute rock bottom in 2019—job gone, relationship over, family illness.
Lying beside her sick grandma, she registered “Scaling Up,” a fractional talent & HR firm that now supports VC-backed start-ups across Europe.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why burnout + “nothing to lose” can be the best launchpad
- The two founder traits, Claudia says, predict low attrition and high output
- Agency-recruitment war stories (holes-in-shoes firings, anyone?)
- Her biggest founder mistake: kindness that crippled the team
- How to be both a decent human and an authoritarian leader—no, it’s not easy
Raw talk on resilience, people problems and paying maternity out of your pocket.