FounderFuel LIVE with Olympian and World Champion rower Alex Partridge

What can founders learn from athletes when it comes to getting in the zone to perform under pressure? How important is recovery to performing at our best? Why is it bad that we forget to celebrate the wins? And what can we learn from the world’s most effective teams that inspires our teams to want to do their very best?

These questions and many more were explored with Olympian and World Champion rower Alex Partridge during our FounderFuel LIVE session with him, to understand how we can fuel ourselves and our teams better in business.

During a 14 year career in the Great British rowing team, Alex was crowned World Champion four times and stood on the Olympic medal podium in both 2008 and 2012. He is now part of scaleup Wagestream (that successfully raised a £20m Series-B during the pandemic) so has a unique perspective on the link between elite performance in sport and in business. Having joined when there was 25 in the team, he’s seen first hand the startup to scaleup journey, and what it takes to fuel a high-performing team.

Dive into human-performance and wellbeing with Alex and Christina here:

weare3Sixty in conversation with Olympian Alex Partridge


FounderFuel LIVE : Bringing you inspiring stories and practical strategies for how you can perform at your best as a founder

Our FounderFuel LIVE events take a dive into dissect human-performance to understand how we can fuel ourselves and our teams better in business, by learning from those who know a thing or two about performing when it matters.

We talk to leading experts on how to train the mind to perform, and hear from some of the world’s highest-performers on how they survived and thrived to achieve what they did – from sporting heroes to adventurers, entrepreneurs to military leaders.

Find our FounderFuel LIVE events line up here

Written by Christina Richardson, founder at weare3Sixty
Founder coach & trainer | Startup exec-team coach | FounderCircle® creator & head-coach. Passionate about sustainable founder performance, wellbeing and the leadership transition from founder to C-suite.


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At weare3Sixty we believe in supporting the humans behind the world’s ambitious startups and our mission is to make sure that every founder and startup leader in the ecosystem has the support and skills to reach their full potential as resilient, high-performing leaders.

Here you’ll find 1:1 founder coaching, team coaching and team training all dedicated to the unique ride that is starting up and scaling up. Not only that, with our group-coaching FounderCircles® you’ll be surrounded by hundreds of other talented founders on the journey too – all committed to fuelling themselves, their teams and each other for the ride.

Calling all accelerators and investment partners: We work in partnership with investors, accelerators and incubators to complement programmes of support and learning with the human side of startup performance. Find out more here.


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