#219 CEO Tanium, Dan Streetman: Critical Responsibility

Guest: Dan Streetman, CEO of Tanium

A graduate of West Point who served in Iraq combat operations, Tanium CEO Dan Streetman can’t help but compare his business career to his military experience. Understanding huge structures and processes is a crucial skill at both Tanium and in the Army, he says, as are the skills for aligning people around a shared mission.

“Before you go on an operation, you write a thing called an operations order ... [and] one of the most important things at the operations order is this paragraph called the commander's intent,” he explains, “which describes how you believe the mission is going to be accomplished and why it's important.”

“You may end up doing something completely different. But as long as you understand the mission and the commander's intent, the organization can do amazing things.”

Chapters:

• (01:05) - Election Day
• (02:44) - Ranger School
• (06:42) - Parenting and business school
• (09:59) - Military structures
• (12:27) - Serving in Iraq
• (15:59) - Back to normal life
• (21:37) - Working out
• (24:14) - Quality sleep
• (26:37) - Non-founder CEOs
• (31:35) - Getting the job
• (35:56) - Earning respect
• (38:49) - TIBCO
• (43:40) - Redline
• (46:37) - Going public
• (53:54) - Time horizons
• (58:35) - Free AI
• (01:03:11) - Whar “grit” mans to Dan
• (01:03:40) - Who Tanium is hiring

Mentioned in this episode: Ronald Reagan, Terri Streetman, Ironman Triathlons, Jeff Bezos and Amazon, Stanley McChrystal, Jon Abizaid, Charles Jacoby, Thomas Siebel and C3, Salesforce, Bill McDermott, Carl Eschenbach, Marc Benioff, Garmin, Mark McLaughlin, Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke, World Series of Poker, Amdocs, David and Orion Hindawi, Citrix, Harvard University, Pets.com, Ben Horowitz, Vista Equity Partners, Vivek Ranadivé, Robert Smith, Operation Warp Speed, BreakLine, Bipul Sinha and Rubrik, Mikhail Gorbachev, F. Scott Fitzgerald, OpenAI and ChatGPT, and Google.

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This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm