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#149 Co-CEO Workday, Carl Eschenbach: A Life of Significance

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Seven Years at Sequoia

I feel a huge amount of responsibility to serve my partner and Neil, serve my workmates, serve our customers as a tremendous responsibility. And you feel like your channel for finding that significance is through leadership. I never worried about having the operating chops to be able to go jump right back into an operating role because I really believe my amazing seven year journey with Sequoia was one where I spent more time in an operating role than anything else. So I actually felt like I'd be a better leader, better executive because I saw so much diversity across so many companies.

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