Time flies when you're having fun. It's the season finale of We Go Together. What started as an audio journal became a place for storytelling, brainstorming, and connecting with other founders. This episode, Dillon ties the season up into 10 key takeaways--one from each episode.  This episode's intro/outro track is "Bird's Eye View" by Steven Beddall.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team.  We Go Together: Season Two coming soon. 

Making friends is easy--making good friends takes time. Luckily, The Relai Team is patient. This week, meet another one of our friends--Ajoy Paul.  Ajoy is a co-founder of Tyltgo, one of Canada's newest white-label shipping services making noise in the last mile.  In this episode, Ajoy sits down with the entire Relai Team to detail his upbringing, motivations, and lessons learned from nearly two years of building Tyltgo. His perspective on customer relationships, team building, his fearless pursuit of goals make Ajoy a mind worth meeting.  Learn more about Tyltgo here:  https://www.tyltgo.com/  https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tyltgo https://www.linkedin.com/company/tyltgo/?originalSubdomain=at This episode's intro/outro track is "Shield (Instrumental)" by WEARETHEGOOD.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team. 

Chance meetings turn into great friends. A Pittsburgh Bar Crawl introduces Relai Co-Founder Miles to Melinda, Co-Founder and CEO of Parcel Health-- a startup seeking to replace the classic orange pill bottle with a more sustainable and informative replacement.  This week, hear Melinda and Miles discuss the challenges of founding teams, Melinda's inspirations, and the all-important notion of dreaming.  Find more on Parcel Health here:  https://www.parcelhealth.co/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/parcelhealth/ This episode's intro/outro track is "Go Season" by MILANO.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team. 

It's August of 2019 in Sewanee. The school year has started again and lots of things are new: Dillon's milk and beef diet has given him a new shirt size, the Track and Field Team has new coaches, and the Relai co-founders are in the same space for the first time since the idea came to them.  With change, however, comes struggle. Dillon has two jobs and a thesis to write. Leadership on the track becomes troublesome, and the end of the calendar year will bring a challenge no one saw coming.  In this episode, Dillon recounts a year of missed meals, long nights, and mousetraps on the way to finishing Senior year of college, and shares some of the lessons he learned from his chalkboard.  This episode's intro/outro track is "Blac DeMarco (Instrumental) by Keston Wright.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team.

Friends: How many of us have them? We're fortunate to have at least one, Tyler Miller. Having met Miles on an outreach trip in high school, Tyler stayed true to his giving spirit and became Relai's first investor in 2020. In this episode, you'll learn about Tyler's upbringing, his passions, and the visions he sees for Relai and the world.  This episode's intro and outro track is "Egos" by Nate Rose.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team. 

The wait is over. Meet T.J.: Relai co-founder, Institute alumni, and all-around wunderkind. This week, T.J. shares stories of his upbringing, the events that shaped him, how he met Miles, his lightbulb moment with Relai, and briefly discusses the all-important Exchange Zone.  This episode's intro/outro track is "Big Leagues" by Vic Sage.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team. 

Continuing the story from Episode One, Dillon explains the FaceTime call with Miles and Frank, reminisces on how life placed him in Sewanee's Fourth of July Parade, and breaks down the earliest napkin sketches of The Relai Model.  This episode's intro/outro track is "Sunday Mornin'" by Marcelandrie.  Episode recorded and edited by The Relai Team.

The startup space is not casual. In this episode, Miles explains why. Exploring the concept of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), the labor of foundational business work, and the emotional toll of bootstrapping a tech company--Miles is honest. Take a peek behind the curtain at the less-than-glamorous side of building Relai from the ground up.  This episode's intro and outro track is "No Rewards" by S.O..  Episode mixed and edited by The Relai Team.

From the notebook scribbler to the serial entrepreneur, everyone has so much growing to do in the startup space. In tech, the internet as we know it is an early-2000s development. With innovation being so new, life feels fast. In this episode, Miles breaks down what The Relai Team calls "The Baby Metaphor", a perspective channeled from Cee-Lo Green and reshaped to inspire their startup efforts.  This episode's intro and outro track is "Vices" by Latrell James.  Episode mixed and edited by The Relai Team.

The story told by Dillon in this episode is the founding dilemma that built Relai. With one final summer as college students, founders Dillon and Miles have nearly opposite schedules: Dillon is the clerk at a convenience store on campus and training daily for Track and Field. Miles is away in D.C. at The Institute, commuting to work and networking for career options. One thing is clear to each of them: this can't be the future. While Dillon takes a long drive, Miles takes a long walk. They meet in the middle over a chance phone call--and brainstorm what will eventually become Relai.  This episode's intro and outro track is "Runnin' (ft. HUSH & Ollie Joseph)" by Nate Rose.  Episode edited and mixed by The Relai Team.