Rob Wiblin

Did they help with fundraising in the early stages?

Or do you get a grant if you go through the program?

Yeah.

To what extent are they helping by legitimizing the decision to quit the other things that you're doing?

I imagine there's plenty of people who, you know, could imagine going and starting something new, but then perhaps it feels very risky to do it or they don't quite feel like they have the confidence to strike out on their own.

And maybe having people, you know, select you from a competition or a competitive pool of applicants saying, yeah, you should absolutely do this and we're going to help you do it, like gets people over the line.

Yeah, nice.

Have you stayed in touch with the other founders who went through the program?

Yeah.

Yeah, for listeners who are thinking they might want to apply, do you know what kind of selection criteria they're using to decide who to admit to the program?

So as I understand it, Charity Entrepreneurship had started this previous thing, Charity Science Health, a couple of years earlier that was already doing the SMS message reminder thing.

And then you kind of merged with them.

What's the story there?

other impactful areas and there seems to be an openness I guess it's all seen as positive having been an entrepreneur in the past yeah yeah makes sense so you found your co-founder Fiona through this program how essential do you think it is to have a co-founder if you're starting a project like this to me intuitively I imagine doing something like this on my own and I'm just like that would never work because I would I would get demoralized and then there'll be no one to kind of pick me up when I was feeling down or that we were facing challenges yeah do you have the same sense

Yeah.

It's interesting that you've done this co-founder split where Fiona's doing most of the management and I guess you're on fundraising and strategy and planning and that kind of thing.

Yeah, that makes sense.

I suppose the relationship between co-founders is so incredibly important for an organization's success.

Do you and Fiona spend time socially together to ensure that any potential frictions kind of get smoothed over?

Yeah, did you do a lot of screening to figure out whether you were a good match before you started the project?