Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup

Cultivate better co-founder relationships: Once every six weeks, all three Roman founders get together out-of-office for the entire day for a North Star meeting. It’s a no-computer all-day meeting where they analyze the past, present and future of the company with an agenda-driven conversation.

Choose co-founders that you would work for, not just with: Another component of well-being is making sure that your relationships, including professional ones, stay strong. While Reitano is the CEO, he says the best way to choose co-founders is to find people that you would not only be willing to work with — but for — as if they were your boss. Sam... See more

Make sure to keep up physical exercise: Every Friday before work, Reitano and Roman’s third co-founder Rob Schutz go for a lap swim.

Institute off-the-grid time: Reitano started having regular weekly dinners on Sunday night with a close group of five to six friends. “We shut off our phones. We don’t check our e-mail,” he said.

During work, they sometimes have “deep work” or dark mode, where they snooze all notifications from the rest of the team and turn on a sunglasses emoji (😎) on all of their internal communications systems to tell the rest of the team not to disturb them.