Leo Raderman

Leo Raderman earned a Master's in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in his early twenties, then moved into entrepreneurship. In 1998 he founded IFILM, pioneering online video years before YouTube existed; its three businesses were later sold for more than $100 million combined. He went on to co-found and lead several companies across technology, media, and education, including Obscura Digital — a world leader in immersive video, acquired by The Madison Square Garden Company to build and power The Sphere in Las Vegas — Nukotoys, called "Silicon Valley's Toy Company," and MiracleFeet, which has helped more than 100,000 children born with clubfoot walk. His work has been covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Variety, Wired, and Bloomberg. GQ named him Man of the Month.

Along the way he experienced two significant professional and personal resets.

In both success and difficulty, the same underlying pressure — comparison, judgement, restless wanting — remained present. It was quieter at times, louder at others, but it did not disappear.

What he learned: the pressure is not solved by the next exit or the right relationship, because it is not a problem to be solved. It is a condition — one to be named and trained, not escaped.

Today, he is the founder of Founderstate. Introduction to Founderstate Training is a four-week training for men who are either still striving or who have arrived and still feel the pressure. He is the author of Trading DOW for Dao and the memoir Love and the Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship. He teaches men not to escape The Intensity, but to work with it — to live directed, steady, strong, and helpful.