The Founder's Journey Podcast. Guest: Dave Kline

Dave Kline teaches leaders how to build great teams & level up their career.

His own founder’s journey started in the purchasing and creation of two businesses: MGMT Accelerator (cohort based management training) & SkillScouter. Prior Dave held senior executive positions at Bridgewater, Moody's Analytics, PwC.

Dave is also a highly followed writer on Twitter, discussing management and leadership.

We dig deep in this episode, discussing:

- How Dave got his first job when an alumni of his alma mater passed out on his coach

- Biggest lessons from buying your first business

- Why you need to miss a few business opportunities to be ready when the real one shows up

- How personal audience building is a driver of business growth

- Building a “Serendipity Acceleration Engine”

- Transitioning from a solopreneur into a scalable business

- The power of a daily writing habit

- Community building vs. Networking

- Approaching management skills as a new craft and not a destination

- Building management skills in early stage founders

- How remote work escalates every bad management habit and how to solve them

- Being intentional in your management approach - How the corporate on-site will be the new offsite

Follow Dave on Twitter @DKlineii