Startup lessons from surfing

Luke Janssen
6 min readFeb 24, 2022

We live in Bali now, and my son and daughter surf, and they are getting pretty good, so I decided to do it too so we could go on family surf holidays. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t learn while I lived in Sydney for 7 years.

I am an intersectional surfer. The intersection of fear, and lack of skill.

My daughter Lucia surfing. She is 11.

As far as I can tell, there are a few main parts of surfing (if there are any real…

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Luke Janssen

Exited founder of Tigerspike. Founder of Mangosteen VC. Extreme sportsman. Dad of 2 daughters and 1 son. Husband of an artist. World whistling champion.