#126 CRO Gem, Lesley Young: Hard Yards
Guest: Lesley Young, CRO of GemLesley Young’s favorite book is “The Obstacle Is The Way,” in which Ryan Holiday argues that the process of working hard to achieve something is more important than the ...
20 Feb 20231h 10min
#125 CRO Starburst, Javier Molina: Reading Cues
Guest: Javier Molina, CRO of StarburstStarburst CRO Javier Molina’s peers, former colleagues, and even his wife often tell him the same thing: He’s difficult to read. That doesn’t mean he’s not liste...
13 Feb 20231h 11min
#124 Founding CRO at Procore, Dennis Lyandres: Defining "Winning"
All of Dennis Lyandres’ mentors — and even his parents — thought he was making a mistake when he joined Procore in 2014. At the time, he was working at the “it” company in Silicon Valley, Cloudera, an...
6 Feb 20231h 21min
#123 CEO GitHub, Thomas Dohmke: Open-Source Values
In the middle of the Great Recession, Thomas Dohmke quit a stable job at a good company because “I wanted to build stuff again.” Specifically, he was inspired by the release of the first software deve...
30 Jan 20231h 11min
#122 President & Board Member at Freshworks, Dennis Woodside: What If This Goes Really Well?
Freshworks president Dennis Woodside copes with stress by running as often as he can, a habit that began when he was CEO of Motorola Mobility. So far, he has run “16 to 17” Ironman triathlons. He’s al...
23 Jan 20231h 5min
#121 Founder & Co-CEO Brex, Henrique Dubugras: Pivot or Else
The best advice Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras ever received came from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel: The best CEOs, Spiegel told him, are “extremely authentic to themselves ... If you try to emula...
16 Jan 202355min
#120 Chairman & CEO ServiceNow, Bill McDermott: Full Speed Ahead
“When you create something,” says ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, “that gives you the ability to help and do good and achieve for the most people possible.” Bill left his first corporate job at Xerox f...
9 Jan 20231h 4min
#119 Co-founder & CEO Gong, Amit Bendov: No Royalty
With more than 1,200 employees, it isn’t easy for Gong co-founder and CEO Amit Bendov to stay in touch with everyone. So, his team has established a series of regular programs to communicate the compa...
2 Jan 20231h 1min
