Float or Founder: Episode 20 - Erica Pearson of Vacation Fund
Float or Founder: Toronto Startup Business Stories
English - October 07, 2019 07:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBBusiness Technology founder ceo startup entrepreneur business leader tech toronto canada investor Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
“There is so much doubt to overcome that can only be overcome by continuing to prove yourself.”
How do you retain good employees, prevent burnout, take unused vacation days off the balance sheet? Adopt a wellness program that gets over 80% opt in that provides employer-matched vacation savings.
Erica Pearson is the founder and CEO of Vacation Fund. She shares how she started off with a scrappy and manual MVP to prove the concept, strategies for how a new founder can take time off (as best as possible!), and pitching as a first-time founder. She shares about the importance of living as many experiences as possible for a fulfilling life and how that mission fuels her team and her company.
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