My guest for Episode 97 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the founder of CouchSurfing.com, Casey Fenton.

From growing up in a small town, Caseys love for new experiences and travel led him to founding CouchSurfing.com, a global community of 15million locals and travellers.

Since stepping away as the CEO in 2012, Casey has been involved in a number of startups, most recently as the co-founder and CEO of Upstock, a performance-based equity tool to help startups effectively navigate and leverage their equity options.

Outside of this, Casey is also writing a new book on Ego Hacking which provides tools and framework for individuals to go beyond their ego to become better leaders and generate increased cooperation at scale.

We covered a lot of ground in this interview including:

• How Casey built and scaled CouchSurfing without spending money on marketing
• Scaling through distributed decision making
• How to best utilise  and split equity fairly
• How to hack your ego

This podcast was produced by the awesome team at Playbook Media. If you would like to launch your own personal or business podcast, say hello to Rohit@playbookmedia.com.au.

Show notes:
– Couchsurfing.com
– upstock.io
– Byron Katie – The Work
– Casey (email)

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