Today we are talking with Gabe Wieder, Head of Operations and Product at SOMETHINGS, a mental health platform for teenagers. He started the company having a background in Product Design from Stanford, as well as history of crisis work in the mental health field. SOMETHINGS was able to raise a seed round of $3.2 million led by General Catalyst this past year, and is still growing! Gabe is currently transitioning out of his role at Somethings to move into venture capital. This path has been spurred on by his involvement with Gaingels, the work he has done for the One Mind Accelerator, and experience as a start-up consultant for friends and colleagues in his free time. He is particularly interested in tapping the potential of VC to reshape the mental health space.
Gabe and I met several years ago while he was exploring his career next steps and I was leading Talent Acquisition for experienced professionals at McKinsey & Co. We reconnected recently and I was struck by everything that he has accomplished in the past 2.5 years. I invited him on the podcast to hear about how he is managing startup life and what he has learned about himself in the process. In this episode, we talk about the techniques Gabe uses for maintaining physical and mental health while championing teen mental health and what he does to fill his cup. We also talk about the act of personal-branding and repackaging ourselves as we iterate on ourselves and our careers. Finally, we talk about the importance of representation in business and, fascinatingly, how we deal with having a new lease on life. I enjoyed this conversation so much that I wanted to stay on and riff with Gabe for hours. I hope you feel the same.
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