#104 Co-founder of Intuit, Scott Cook: The Power of Paradigms
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.” Intuit’s personal finance product Quicken had survive...
19 Sep 20221h 18min
#103 Founder & CEO Productboard, Hubert Palan w/ Ilya Fushman: Chasing Perfection
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 Musk. But as the boss of a hot and growing tech sta...
12 Sep 20221h 6min
#102 CEO Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon: We’re In a Hurry to Get to the Future
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon believes his company is perfectly positioned for the world economy of the future, connecting everything from phones to exercise bikes to cars. And he predicts we’re about t...
5 Sep 202246min
#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed
“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 learning how to write while sitting outside his chi...
29 Aug 202251min
#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors
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 Sergey Brin that they needed to hire a CEO to help...
22 Aug 20221h 6min
CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind
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 the years that sometimes, the smartest thing to do in...
15 Aug 20221h 10min
Co-founder and CEO G2, Godard Abel: Finding Opportunity in Challenging Times
After rescuing his first startup BigMachines from the brink of bankruptcy and building it to positive cash flow, Godard Abel thought the express lane of life was opening up to him. But after the board...
8 Aug 20221h
Founding CRO @HubSpot / Prof @HBS / CoFounder @Stage 2 Capital Mark Roberge: The Science and Psychology of Scaling
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 HubSpot. And Roberge, who now lectures at Harvard B...
1 Aug 20221h 9min
