Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO
In the early days of Okta, co-founder Frederic Kerrest was courting a 3,000-person company in Louisiana, which was considering Okta and one other vendor. When he learned who he was up against, he said...
20 Jun 20221h 19min
Founder & CEO Flock Safety, Garrett Langley: Tech That Makes Everyone Safer
In April, a young girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Yakima, Wash., and later told police she was picked up by a stranger in a car. The case might have gone cold there, if Yakima hadn’t just...
13 Jun 20221h 9min
COO Ironclad, Leyla Seka: More Equal Is Always Better
Leyla Seka has a clear idea of “what makes me great” as the COO of Ironclad: She’s incredibly direct with her team. Although many people are not comfortable with getting direct feedback, she says, “I ...
6 Jun 20221h 12min
Chief Freemium Business Officer at Spotify, Alex Norstrom: The Power of Setting Impossible Goals
When Alex Norstrom started working at Spotify in 2011, CEO Daniel Ek told him there were three goals: Growth, growth, and growth. But Alex — now the Chief Freemium Business Officer — argued that his t...
30 Mai 20221h 23min
#87 Founder & CEO Thrive, Arianna Huffington: Life Is About More Than Money and Power
Thrive CEO Arianna Huffington is best known for the pioneering online publication she founded, the Huffington Post, which she left in 2016. The experience of running the site awakened her to the most ...
23 Mai 20221h 1min
CMO Airtable, Archana Agrawal: Success Is Not a Formula
Archana Agrawal started her job as CMO of Airtable on March 18, 2020 — the same week that the US began to “shelter in place” as cases of the novel coronavirus rapidly rose. With kids who would be stay...
16 Mai 20221h 3min
CMO Square, Lauren Weinberg: Self-made boss
As the CMO for Square, Lauren Weinberg spends a lot of her time talking to new and inexperienced small business owners — and she knows that each of them has wisdom that the others could benefit from. ...
9 Mai 20221h
Co-Founder & CEO Handshake, Garrett Lord: The Billion-Dollar Question That Changed College Recruiting
Handshake CEO and co-founder Garrett Lord was amazed when he first learned that Silicon Valley firms like Google recruited on college campuses ... just not his, Michigan Technical University. But afte...
2 Mai 202252min
