Summary

The grind to success can be long, punishing, and it can quietly take more than it gives. After scaling his first company, Liftopia, into a business with more than $60 million in annual revenue, he went on to become CEO of AllTrails, the popular hiking map app. Today, he leads test-prep startup Acely . But looking back across his career, he says he had to learn the hard way what real work-life balance actually costs—and what it’s worth.

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