Nidhi Mehta : I would like you to take us back to the time when Stephen was at Silicon Valley raising funds for Truiloo and you were managing the company in Vancouver, at the same time managing motherhood with two kids under two. If you can recall how the day looked back then?

Tanis Jorge: That was a hard time. I can say I never anticipated how difficult and different that journey would be from the previous ones we had in our other ventures. As a person who loves the startup process and who really enjoyed raising my kids, I found it very difficult to excel at both; I always felt I was falling short in each endeavour. In a day, I started by getting the nanny set up, trying to spend a little “quality-time” with each child before I left. I then had an hour commute downtown to our office where I worked with our team on the day's tasks. Then an hour to get home, make dinner (our nanny was mostly childcare focused), tidy, squeeze in more ‘quality-time’ with the little ones, and off to bed. In previous companies, in the evening, I was able to let my mind continue to ponder the startup and even get some more work done but this time around that wasn’t a possibility. I also struggled with working-mom guilt, wanting to ensure my kids had the right amount of time with me to feel loved. It was hard.