CRO Zoom, Ryan Azus: It’s Not Zoom Fatigue, It’s Work Fatigue
Ryan Azus, CRO of Zoom, has been selling all his life, from baseball cards as a kid to ads in the school newspaper to — crucially — books every summer in college. Every year, he and and thousands of o...
14 Mars 20221h 9min
CCO Instabase, Ozge Ozcan: Rising and Falling - Like a Phoenix
Instabase’s Ozge Ozcan believes that many women have been fed a false story about motherhood: That it can be seen as a “decelerator” to one’s career. Instead, she’s found that raising two daughters ha...
7 Mars 202255min
CMO Samsara, Sarah Patterson: What You Do vs. Why It Matters
Sarah Patterson, CMO of Samsara, doesn’t believe in keeping your armor up around your coworkers: “You’ve got something else on your mind, it’s going to come through,” she says. While working at Salesf...
28 Feb 202259min
CRO Calendly, Kate Ahlering: Embracing Leadership - On and Off the Basketball Court
Kate Ahlering might be the perfect guest for this podcast. She eventually worked her way up to Chief Sales Officer of Glassdoor, but when she joined in 2013, she helped define the company’s leadership...
21 Feb 202253min
CEO Loom, Joe Thomas: Communication, the Mother of All Skills
When Rippling CEO Parker Conrad was raising a massive $250 million round last year, he didn’t start by presenting his deck to venture capitalists in person. Instead, he sent a 39-minute demo of his pr...
14 Feb 20221h 15min
President at Databricks, Andy Kofoid: Reinvention at Any Stage
When Andy Kofoid was growing up in the working-class town of Joliet, Illinois, he dreamed of getting to college and — like a lot of his relatives — worked in construction. Today, Andy is laying digita...
7 Feb 20221h 13min
Former CEO Splunk, Doug Merritt: Creating 360° Order in Chaos
Doug Merritt joins this episode on the tail end of his impressive run as Splunk’s CEO. With decades of leadership in what can be described as an “exploratory career,” Doug breaks down his professional...
31 Jan 20221h 22min
CEO Stord, Sean Henry: Supply Chains... Are Fun?
Stord, a Kleiner portfolio company, and its co-founder/CEO, Sean Henry, are defying a multitude of limits. While Sean is ranked as the youngest unicorn founder, he refuses to let his age define him. D...
24 Jan 20221h
