Dan Teran sat down with David Politis on the Not Another CEO podcast to talk about what building a company actually costs. The conversation traces Dan's path from founding Managed by Q, where he scaled a team of nearly 1,000 frontline workers and gave equity to every employee, through the acquisition by WeWork and his transition to investor at Gutter Capital. Dan shares how great culture is built through systems rather than slogans, why the most resilient founders are the ones deeply connected to the problem they're solving, and how AI is changing the economics of getting a company off the ground. That change is why Dan and his co-founder James Gettinger launched Elbow Grease, a hands-on accelerator focused on building over pitching, for early stage founders.