#114 CMO GE, Linda Boff: Play ‘Til the Whistle
In Silicon Valley when business is good, it's normal for top talent to hop from company to company to company. But GE's Linda Boff, described by at least one of her peers as the "Beyoncé of CMOs," has...
28 Nov 202247min
#113 CEO PagerDuty, Jennifer Tejada: The Re-Finder
PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada has mixed feelings about how she is often portrayed in the press, as a “badass woman CEO.” The scarcity of female executives in enterprise means that it’s often the first...
21 Nov 20221h 12min
#112 Former President at Tesla / CEO of DVx Ventures, Jon McNeill: First-Principles
When DVx Ventures co-founder Jon McNeill joined Tesla in 2015, he told his new boss Elon Musk: “You won’t see me at least a day a week.” That’s because Jon believes the job of any leader is to make ti...
14 Nov 20221h 14min
#111 Founder and CEO Whoop, Will Ahmed: Unlocking Optimal Human Performance
Health monitoring company Whoop, founded and led by CEO Will Ahmed, hid a secret message on the circuitboard of its latest wearable device. “It says, ‘Don’t bother copying us, we will win,’” Will says...
7 Nov 20221h 8min
#110 Former CRO / Advisor at Notion, Olivia Nottebohm: Grow Fast or Die Slow
As a veteran of several high-powered organizations — including McKinsey, Google, Dropbox — Notion advisor Olivia Nottebohm has learned the importance of respecting her teams’ personal journeys. She be...
31 Okt 20221h 6min
#109 Co-founder & CEO, Databricks Ali Ghodsi: The Difference Between Truth and Data
“I literally thought to myself, I probably made the biggest mistake of my life taking this job.” That’s what Ali Ghodsi recalls about his decision step up the CEO role at Databricks, which would mean ...
24 Okt 20221h 4min
#108 COO Zscaler, Dali Rajic: If You’re Not Always Learning, You’ll Get Wiped Out
Before Zscaler’s Dali Rajic arrived at his current company, he helped grow AppDynamics from $7 million in annual recurring revenue to nearly $1 billion — and for his next move, he knew he had to do so...
17 Okt 20221h 16min
#107 Founding CRO at Flexport, Ben Braverman: The Power of Genuine Curiosity
“Everyone excellent at their craft starts from a place of deep insecurity,” says Flexport’s founding CRO Ben Braverman. People are “slow-burning fireworks,” he explains, and we need time to learn how ...
10 Okt 20221h 18min
