Jul 1, 2026 · 13 min · 12 segments
Chris Withers is an education entrepreneur who built a children’s educational board game and interactive mobile app. In this episode, he gets brutally honest about what it actually takes to keep a…
Chris WithersGuest
Anthony LeungHost
Vladeta RadovanovicHost
Chris CarrollHost
What signals should I look for as a non-technical founder from a technical partner to know that I can trust this person?

I would say the way we communicated was on a level that I'd want to be communicated to if it was the other way around.

But knowing that the team and other people in this team that you can speak to if he's not available, they can talk you through what's happening.

Having someone there on the other end of the phone stops you from maybe going to the pub or this, that and the other and that sort of support helps.

I've got a number of partners around me at this moment in time that more than just their own businesses the people that actually genuinely care about you that run successful companies that actually call you i speak to the main people now and again for a chat from accountants to the to tech stuff to schools all to get the game discovered so yeah communication is one of the biggest things a technical stuff was never a worry and you know i just needed to know about the people you were working with more than anything and they delivered on that

What signals should I look for as a non-technical founder from a technical partner to know that I can trust this person?

I would say the way we communicated was on a level that I'd want to be communicated to if it was the other way around.

But knowing that the team and other people in this team that you can speak to if he's not available, they can talk you through what's happening.

Having someone there on the other end of the phone stops you from maybe going to the pub or this, that and the other and that sort of support helps.

I've got a number of partners around me at this moment in time that more than just their own businesses the people that actually genuinely care about you that run successful companies that actually call you i speak to the main people now and again for a chat from accountants to the to tech stuff to schools all to get the game discovered so yeah communication is one of the biggest things a technical stuff was never a worry and you know i just needed to know about the people you were working with more than anything and they delivered on that
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