Startups Are BETTER for Parents Than Big Tech | Jacob Bank (Dad of 3, Founder at Relay.app, ex-Google)
Jacob Bank is the Founder and CEO of Relay.app, a profitable, fast-growing startup that helps teams build AI agents to automate their work. Previously, Jacob founded Timeful, which was acquired by Google, where he spent six years before leaving to start Relay when his first daughter was just six months old.
He and his wife Sonia, a pediatrician at UCSF, now have three young kids and have intentionally designed both their company and their family life around flexibility, autonomy, and depth over scale. We discussed:
Leaving Google with a baby at home: The three-part framework Jacob used to…
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