Hi, I’m Quy Langridge-Tien, husband to the lovely Jade, proud father to beautiful Lyra and cuteness personified Starla (she’s the furry one).
This is the moment that changed everything. Lyra’s arrival was the signal that led me to leave a 30-year corporate career to be present.
At 47, I was a career executive, comfortable and on a predictable path. Then, late one night, a story about John Lennon stopped me cold.
At the absolute peak of his fame, Lennon walked away from it all. For five years, he traded sold-out stadiums for swimming lessons and guitars for oven gloves. He had missed his first son’s childhood while touring and vowed not to make the same mistake with his second.
He chose to be present.
It was a short time after he returned to music that he was gone forever.
That story was a signal from the universe. My wife and I were trying for our first child, and I realized I might not get a second chance.
So I left.
I walked away from a 27-year corporate career to be a work-from-home dad. I could always make more money; our daughter, Lyra, would only be a child once. This principle—that true success is being present for what matters—became my foundation.
I started a ghostwriting consultancy, Continuum, to pay the bills. But in serving some of the most brilliant founders in the world, I saw the flaw in their success.
They were trapped.
Their genius was the engine of their business, but it had also become its primary bottleneck. They had world-class reputations but were drowning in operational chaos. The relentless pressure was costing them their health, their relationships, and the very joy the business was supposed to provide.
They were winning a hollow victory.
I realized the work couldn’t just be about building a reputation (ERA). It had to solve the operational chaos that breaks the founder (CORE). And it had to be built on a foundation of intentional resilience (PRAXIS), otherwise the entire enterprise was worthless.
I founded Continuum to build the system I wish I’d had. A complete operating system for founder-led growth that ensures your reputation, your business, and your own well-being scale in unison.
Because if a business breaks its founder, it’s not a success. It’s a failure of the system.
This blog is where I share the principles behind that system.
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To see the specific frameworks we use to solve the Founder Bottleneck and build Investor-Grade Narratives, visit the Continuum page.