#116 Grit Recap: 9 Intersections of Personal and Professional

Guest: Daniela Amodei, President and co-founder of AnthropicWith a reported valuation of as much as $18 billion, Anthropic has the resources to be one of the dominant AI companies in Silicon Valley; h...

12 Feb 20241h 46min

Guest: Dev Ittycheria, CEO and President of MongoDBWhen you think about who you were and the decisions you made two, or four, or eight years ago ... how do you feel? Dev Ittycheria, the President and ...

5 Feb 20241h 5min

Guest: Frank Slootman, CEO and Chairman of Snowflake and author of Amp It UpSnowflake CEO Frank Slootman doesn’t recall a time in his childhood where new achievements were celebrated — because, accord...

29 Jan 202453min

Guest: Jason Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Ginkgo BioworksAlmost everyone in the second generation of biotechnology entrepreneurs, says Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly, works in that field because of o...

22 Jan 202459min

Guest: John McMahon, author of The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CROA hell of a lot of people work in sales. But until recently, says five-time CRO and The Qualified Sales Le...

15 Jan 20241h 33min

Guest: Angela Duckworth, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance“There’s got to be a cost” when you pursue your passions, says University ...

8 Jan 20241h 11min

Guest: David Cancel, founder and former CEO of Drift; founder of ReyAfter HubSpot acquired his company Performable in 2011, David Cancel became his acquirer’s Chief Product Officer — and didn’t give a...

1 Jan 20241h 13min

Guest: John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner PerkinsAfter 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 Serg...

25 Des 20231h 6min