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Peter Shallard

Founder & CEO, Commit Action · 1 appearance on the record.

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Peter Shallard is a psychotherapist turned performance coach who works with venture-backed and bootstrapped founders to overcome cognitive biases and psychological blind spots. Known as "The Shrink for Entrepreneurs," he is also the founder and CEO of Commit Action, an evidence-based accountability coaching service for business owners.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 6 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Peter argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Shallard: Anticipating social accountability improves goal follow-through up to 100%
“That, you know, the science on it is like case closed, overwhelming evidence, just even the anticipation of social accountability that it might happen is shown to improve people's follow through on goals by up to a hundred percent.”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 54:38 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs

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Everything Peter Shallard said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Shallard: Specialized therapists fundamentally misunderstand the realities of entrepreneurship
“Most people who specialize in therapy, they, they're just, they couldn't be further away from the coalface of entrepreneurship and they just don't get it. There's this gulf of misunderstanding.”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 3:50 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Insight
Shallard: Imitative desire among entrepreneurs worsens as they become more successful
“What a lot of people who are starting out don't know is that it actually gets worse the more successful you become because you start to feel that you're sort of at the table with some of these amazing people. And so a lot of entrepreneurs, the more traction th…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 14:33 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Insight
Shallard: Raising a seed round is a heavy obligation, not a victory
“A lot of, like a lot of naive entrepreneurs feel like they've won. They pop a bottle right on the night that they, that the funds wire for their seed stage, not understanding that they're now obligated to a bunch of investors to work their ass off, to build so…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 23:01 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Insight
Early wins cause founders to lose psychological calibration and overlook problems
“It's really easy for people who have quick wins to get carried away and start to believe that everything they touch turns to gold and lose Lose their kind of psychological calibration to what the actual result is, what, what's going on in their business. And t…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 5:55 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Insight
Shallard: Founder stress and focus depend on personal agency, not activity
“One of the big things that can change our like relationship to stress, overwhelm our ability to focus isn't even really about what we do, right? Like you might watch that keynote start to finish, but it's about being in control of the choice so that you're the…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 8:35 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Insight
Shallard: Reacting to primary sources rather than peers prevents founder copycatting
“And one of the ways that you can fix this cognitive bias is by focusing, if you are going to consume information on the primary sources, so that your intuition, your instincts are reacting to the same information That these people like Kevin Rose are also reac…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 16:01 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Insight
Shallard: Bootstrappers can build scalable products on just 20% of their time
“I think it's totally feasible to spend 20% of your time in your first year of entrepreneurship as a bootstrapper building the product that's going to one day liberate all the rest of your time, right? Like it can really be, you might spend 80% of your time jus…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 34:11 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Assertion Supported
Shallard: Anticipating social accountability improves goal follow-through up to 100%
“That, you know, the science on it is like case closed, overwhelming evidence, just even the anticipation of social accountability that it might happen is shown to improve people's follow through on goals by up to a hundred percent.”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 54:38 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shallard: Commit Action generates close to $5M ARR and is monthly profitable
“We've scaled it up to, you know, close to about that five million dollar mark at this point. So it's kind of funny because yeah, you were right. Like when you thought about that idea, I mean, I'd kill to get it to forty million and I think we will. But that's …”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 41:46 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shallard: Commit Action achieved a sub-30-day payback period on customer acquisition
“We've built marketing channels that have like a sub-thirty-day payback on customer acquisition cost, which is like a super awesome key to, you know, to scale.”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 45:36 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Shallard: Jean-Claude Van Damme predicted the world's end at a business conference
“He laid, he told the crowd that the world was going to end and he laid down on the stage and did breathing exercises for a while.”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 1:45 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs Jun 15, 2023 36m
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