Dr. Greg Jacobson: Juggling Life and Being Both an Emergency Physician and a Startup CEO

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Joining me for Episode #31 of “the My Favorite Mistake” podcast is Dr. Greg Jacobson, an emergency medicine physician and the CEO/co-founder of KaiNexus, a technology and software company. In the interest of full disclosure, I will mention that I have worked with KaiNexus, in various capacities, since 2011 and I have an ownership stake in the company.

That said, Greg is one of the most interesting people you'll ever meet. Many startup CEOs launch their company at night while working their day job. Greg started KaiNexus during the days while working some nights as an E.R. doc.

In today's episode, Greg (always the overachiever) shares FIVE favorite mistakes from his career:

Not reading more
Not figuring out work/life balance
Struggling with the diffusion of CEO attention as the company grows
Not being appreciative enough
Not doing his own due diligence

We'll talk about all of that, the importance of creating a culture of continuous improvement in a company, and much more. I think you'll enjoy the conversation, as I did.

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Quotes:

"Sometimes just putting more time, effort, and energy to something, it almost slows you down in a weird, bizarre way."

"What does it mean to focus on culture? It means to be more intentional about doing one-on-ones with people. It means to stop and really realize that people are people and they have home lives. It means showing an interest, a genuine interest, not like a superficial interest, about people's passions and about what makes them tick outside of work."

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