RAD DAD, HOSTED BY KIRILL ZUBOVSKY.

Intelligent conversations with successful dads.

★★★★★

Vin Thomas

Founder and Designer at WeAreFixel.com - Teaching children entrepreneurship from young age.

Salem, OR

March 23, 2019

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Rad Dad is a podcast about the lives, decisions and view of successful, intelligent, and peculiar parents. Fun stories, insights, and of course, occasional parenting advice.

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Past Episodes

Vlad Magdalin

Webflow

March 6, 2019

Can you have a family, a successful company making millions of dollars in annual revenue, and do it all at your own pace, with a remote office company, while having a life that you want to live? Vlad sure can, and we think you can too. Life is too short to live someone else’s dream. The story of Webflow and life advice from Vlad, in this episode.

Drew Wilson

Family trip in an RV around the world.

February 4, 2019

One day, needing a break from his entrepreneur endeavors, Drew rented an RV and took his entire family on a trip around the United States, for a whole year. This is his story.

Bryce Roberts

Indie.vc

January 25, 2019

Bryce is the founder of Indie.vc, an investment fund focused on revenue over crazy growth. Fueled by his own desire to do things differently, Bryce works from his home in Utah, while living life to the fullest and being a rad dad.

Jason Preston

Dent The Future founder on startup life with kids

January 14, 2019

Jason is a co-founder of Dent The Future, a community of entrepreneurs, executives, and creatives who are driven to “put a dent in the universe.” We talk about startup journey and how to manage a creative job while raising two kids.

Roel Williams

Foster care 101. Abuse, drugs, and the inside of the shady system.

November 20, 2018

When he was six years old, Roel lost his mom to cancer and ended up in the foster care. Abuse, drugs, and the system that keeps your locked up inside. This is his story.

Emily Campbell

Parenting with intention

November 8, 2018

Emily Campbell is a product designer based out of Moab, Utah where she lives with her husband and three kids. She makes the money, he plays with the kids, and together they are having an adventure of a lifetime.

Michael FitzGerald

Submittable CEO talks startups, life, cancer and living in Missoula, Montana.

October 20, 2018

Running a business is easy, anyone can do it. This former novelist chose to do it the hard way. He got married, had two kids, raised venture funding, and then had a terminal cancer to beat. The story of how it all went down on this episode of Rad Dad.

Adam Lisagor

The face of startups in Silicon Valley (Sandwich Video)

September 12, 2018

Sandwich Video is an LA company that created beautiful video ads that don't feel like advertisement. Adam is their chief bread maker. It all started with an app, and the rest as they say is history. Tune in to hear his story.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Founder of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp

September 6, 2018

David is a successful entrepreneur who rejected the status quo and charted his own path. You can be successful, a good parent, and have a life too. He's written about it in "ReWork" and "It doesn't have to be crazy at work."

Dan Shapiro

Glowforge founder and serial entrepreneur empowers the next generation of creators.

July 12, 2018

If there is a man who doesn't stop creating, that's Dan Shapiro. He is a serial entrepreneur from Seattle who's started a number of companies. Find out how.

Aubrey Johnson

How one man is working remotely and raising a happy family.

July 6, 2018

Aubrey was named one of Business Insider's Top 75 Designers in Technology and has worked for companies like Twilio, Authy, Science Inc., Color, Scoutzie and many others. While most people would consider running a business a full-time job in itself, Aubrey does all of this in a comfort of his own home. Listen and find out how this rad dad gets the most out of life!

Greg Gottesman

Pioneer Square Labs and the Family Life of a Venture Capitalist

July 1, 2018

On this episode of Rad Dad, Kirill Zubovsky and Greg Gottesman talk about family life with three kids, the rising costs of education and where AI and machine learning will take us. Venture Capital, business, parenting and education, you will learn something new about it all.

John Cook

GeekWire co-founder shares the joys and challenges of running a business and being an involved dad

June 9, 2018

Eight years ago John co-founded GeekWire.com and had a kid at the same time - Although life hasn’t always been easy, the only thing he regrets is not doing both ealier in his life. Follow along and learn a bit about both entrepreneurship and parenting.

Zack Onisko

Dribbble CEO talks about the benefit of distributed teams on parenting and quality of life.

June 1, 2018

Zack is a successful entrepreneur, wizard of growth, and the CEO of a design company Dribbble. While some of his peers are busy cranking 14-hour days in the city, Zack works with a fully distributed team from the comfort of his house. The future is here, and it is distributed.

Sean Grover

New York Therapists and author of "When Kids Call The Shots" shares his proven methods to get kids to behave.

May 18, 2018

Sean Grover is a psychotherapist from New York City, dad of two children, and an author of the book When Kids Call The Shots. For 25 years Sean has been teaching parents how to embrace their challenges and to create a happy functioning family. If you think your kid might be bullying you, if you lost all hope and don’t know how to deal with tantrums, or maybe you are just looking for some advice on how to be a better parent, this interview is for you. You will not be disappointed, guaranteed!

Geoff Ralston

Y Combinator partner shares tips on raising kids without screwing them up.

April 29, 2018

Geoff Ralston is a successful investor and entrepreneur, living in the heart of Silicon Valley. He founded Yahoo Mail, invested in hundreds of companies, and has seen dozens of successful exists. On this episode Kirill Zubovsky and Geoff Ralston discuss the price of entrepreneurship, challenges of modern-day parenting, device addiction, performance drugs, standardized tests and the future of education.

Aviel Ginsburg

Simply Measured founder on being a new dad while going through an acquisition

April 21, 2018

One wild weekend Aviel and friends churned through idea after idea until one of them stuck. Some years later, Simply Measured was acquired, just as Aviel was having a newborn baby. Hear his startup story and what it is like to be a new dad in a super-high-stress environment.

Giri Sreenivas

Startup founder turned privacy advocate shares his approach to parenting

April 4, 2018

Son of an Indian immigrant family, Giri is a Stanford graduate and a co-founder of Privacy Labs, a local Bellevue Washington startup. We talk about raising two kids in the new world filled with devices, what his company is all about, why privacy is going to be instrumental in the future, and how the world has changed since a few decades ago while Giri was growing up.

Parker Thompson (aka Startup L. Jackson)

Bay Area living with kids and how to learn to relax and enjoy the journey

February 20, 2018

Parker Thompson is a Silicon Valley founder turned VC, known to many in startup circles for his anonymous personality of Startup L. Jackson. Hear Parker’s story and advice on raising three kids in a fast-paced world of tech entrepreneurship, and how to keep your kids safe and happy in a city full of millionaires.

Eric Koester

Are your kids ready for the future?

January 29, 2018

What does a pie-eating contest have in common with parenting and creativity? Turns out, way more than you think. Listen to this lawyer-turned-entrepreneur talk about a radically new teaching philosophy you can apply to your kids today.

Caspar Babypants

World-famous musician shares tips on entrepreneurship, parenting, and finding yourself.

December 15, 2017

Would you give up millions of followers on MTV for a small concert hall with a handful of toddlers? Chris did and has found immense satisfaction in doing so. Find out how and why...

Mike Folden

Can you survive a life with a newborn baby?

December 9, 2017

Life is what you make it. If outdoors is what you love, then having a kid should not keep you from it. This family found their way, then they have not stopped.

Matt Wallington

Divorce, startups, and children. Dad's journey.

December 3, 2017

In this episode we talk to my friend Matt Wallington about his experiences of raising kids while at startups, then at Amazon, and how those impacted him, his kids and his marriage. We also talk about getting through a divorce, what to expect, and how to do it quick.

Oleksiy Kovyrin

Dads, do you feel depressed sometimes?

December 2, 2017

Many dads feel depressed because they are not able to connect with their children in the early years. Very few talk about it publicly. Oleksiy shares his story and what you can do about your own dark feelings.

Michael Parenteau

Should you follow your passion in life?

December 1, 2017

"Put food on the table, shirt on your back, roof over your head." - being an artists was not a careers to pursue in this family, and yet, Michael stuck to his craft. He was passionate about art, and got really good at it. Now Michael designs and codes apps for money, while painting for his soul. He is also teaching his daugher that you can do anything, as long as you can get really passionate about it.

Galen Ward

Raising kids vs. running a company. What would a CEO do?

December 1, 2017

Galen Ward is a CEO of a tech company and a father of two awesome girls. Listen and learn how to share the labor of parenting with your partner and how to set your kids up for success from the young age.

Matt Shobe

Startups and kids. How to do it all.

November 29, 2017

Matt Shobe is a father of 3 boys, a serial entrepreneur, a private pilot and a rad dad, who came to the Rad Dad podcast to talk about startups and what it takes to have a happy family while you are busy building a rocket ship.