Family Founders & how to make it work

As we transition away from the early adopters of location independent working and silicon valley hipsters, I see a new movement in the intersection between the increase in automation in tech & more remote working. I see us coming to a point in business and personal life where the boundary between the two overlaps and we start to either form brands, companies with our blood family (example: grandma or your son) or your startup is so aligned to you, you start to share your commons with them and they become your non related (non blood) family, maybe providing you with time off together, or health insurance.

Paul Graham, Y combinators founder says we should seek out people we like and align to, not employees, partners or co founders, but people we actually like day to day. Business can be with people you like too, he says.

Another trend is our desire to do more aligned and purposeful work, kicking the boring ass 9–5. Why work for a company that is just focused on making money when you could be working with a purpose based business or your own that aligns to you. As the tools become more available for you to find this type of work & get paid to do what you love, and create, we will find ourselves where there will be no boundaries between work and recreation. We will be building family brands by families maybe?

Silicon valley and the startup world doesn’t really portray what happens at home if you take on startup venture on with a child, an old granny or a partner. They usually depict, a single, house sharing coding all day and night, hipster. But what happens when that person wants more, how do they adjust to potentially a different kind of family life? What if they want a partner, a family or 5 dogs?. What does a 100 hour week look like in between nappy changes and making food and cleaning up toys all over the place? let alone starting a startup.

Where is the Y Combinator for Family founders?, where the program may take care of your children during focused hours of the startup program. I know WeWork is establishing childcare in their co working spaces, which is inspiring and a well needed stage for this transition.

As we transition away from the early adopters, single digital nomad minimalists and with the rise in location independent workers, we will start to see location independent families emerge, looking for aligned neighborhoods, Co-housing over Co Living, communities or just a family friendly Airbnb.

Soon we will be sharing how we are going about it, feel free to check out our version of that with our weekly episodes — www.discovereel.com

We’ve got this,

Dean