Endurance, leadership, and building things.
A lot of people tell me that being CEO of Rezdy, Checkfront, and Regiondo must be easier the second time around after FareHarbor.They’re right — in some ways.Fewer guesses.Fewer avoidable mistakes....
This summer, I had two of the hardest and most humbling experiences of my life: Lavaredo 120K and UTMB.Both races exposed me in ways I didn’t fully expect. They stripped away the noise, the ego, an...
I went to Chamonix to answer a simple question: what is my limit? In my head, that limit looked a lot like Courtney Dauwalter’s pain cave—a place you enter on purpose, and survive. What I learned w...
On June 27th at 10 p.m. in Cortina, I arrived at the starting line and stood for an hour with a couple of thousand other runners waiting for the gun. Most were chatting (the elites were sitting), b...
2 weeks ago I attempted to run my first ultramarathon @ the Bear Chase Race Series in Lakewood, Colorado. One of my colleagues, Davis Cutter, had challenged me to run an ultramarathon 4 m...
If you’ve been on the internet anytime in the past week, you’ve likely encountered the story of United Airlines dragging a passenger off of a flight in Chicago. There have been plenty of arti...
After roughly 20 years of snowboarding, I decided to make the switch to skiing for the 2016-2017 season. For context, I’m not learning to ski. My first year on the slopes was in Minnesota during th...
As FareHarbor has grown, we’ve gone from a startup where everybody does everything, to a company with specialized roles. It wasn’t too long ago that we were figuring out what was measurable a...
I can’t begin to imagine how hard it must be to put so much effort into something you know is disappearing. However, the Zerve team stepped up. They have consistently been focused on doing th...
If you’re starting a business, I recommend you check in with the bigger picture as often as you can. When you live and breathe the details of your business on a minute-by-minute basis, you can quic...
This last weekend I tried to run a marathon without having run more than a 10 mile long run in over a year and more than 20 total miles in any 7 days. At mile 25, I was pulled off the course and un...
Changing the perception of a salespersonA guest post by Max Valverde, FareHarbor’s CCO and Head of SalesWhen I tell people at parties that I work in sales they’re unsure how to respond. I...