When a company offered to buy Ryan Smith's startup Qualtrics for more than $500 million in the early 2010's, he asked his wife to take a drive.
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How this CEO used a simple system to nail his work-life balance and build a company that just sold for $8 billion (SAP)
List every job you have. Then get to work. That's the method that Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith used to build a company that he just sold to SAP for $8 billion.
Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015.
The deal, and the amount of money it would net his family, was a lot to process.
He noted that if he took his wife on a date and bought her a surprise bouquet of flowers, that might make him feel like a good husband. And if he taught his daughter to ride a bike, he would feel like a better dad.
Ryan Smith describes work-life balance as a plane that constantly needs to be stabilized.
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For example, if he took his daughter to his parent's house and taught her to ride a bike in their cul-de-sac, he could be both a good father and son.
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