Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#104 Co-founder of Intuit, Scott Cook: The Power of Paradigms
Episode 104
Intuit co-founder Scott Cook still remembers the first line of an email he received in 1994 from billg@microsoft.com: “This really is Bill Gates.” In…
3 years, 7 months ago
#103 Founder & CEO Productboard, Hubert Palan w/ Ilya Fushman: Chasing Perfection
Episode 103
Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan has made a point of studying the communication style of other leaders, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Elon …
3 years, 7 months ago
#102 CEO Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon: We’re In a Hurry to Get to the Future
Episode 102
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon believes his company is perfectly positioned for the world economy of the future, connecting everything from phones to ex…
3 years, 7 months ago
#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed
Episode 101
“When I grew up in Bangalore, I’d never seen a computer,” says Thomas Kurian. The former president of Oracle, now the CEO of Google Cloud, remembers …
3 years, 7 months ago
#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors
Episode 100
After Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr first invested in Google — $12.8 million for 13 percent of the company — he told co-founders Larry Page and…
3 years, 7 months ago
CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind
Episode 99
Touch The Top CEO Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, climbs hundreds of mountains every year. And he’s learned over th…
3 years, 8 months ago
Co-founder and CEO G2, Godard Abel: Finding Opportunity in Challenging Times
Episode 98
After rescuing his first startup BigMachines from the brink of bankruptcy and building it to positive cash flow, Godard Abel thought the express lane…
3 years, 8 months ago
Founding CRO @HubSpot / Prof @HBS / CoFounder @Stage 2 Capital Mark Roberge: The Science and Psychology of Scaling
Episode 97
Mark Roberge’s first anxiety attack hit him six months after 9/11, and his second hit him in the middle of a big speech while he was an executive at …
3 years, 8 months ago
CMO Canva, Zach Kitschke: From Employee Number 5 To $40 Billion Valuation
Episode 96
Canva CMO Zach Kitschke was the company’s fifth employee, joining right before the product launched to the public — or, that was the plan anyway. Eme…
3 years, 8 months ago
Founder & CEO Freshworks, Girish Mathrubootham: Success Is In the Big Things, Happiness Is In the Small Things
Episode 95
Girish Mathrubootham is the founder and CEO of Freshworks, the first Indian SaaS company to be listed in NASDAQ — and when he’s in his home country, …
3 years, 9 months ago