EP 51: Matt Mochary (Founder, The Mochary Method) - The Coach Behind Sam Altman, Naval, Brian Armstrong Shares the Mistakes That All CEOs Make
The Logan Bartlett Show
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"I'm treated like a piece of cattle. Or I got the message one on one live," she said. "It was painful, but at least the person had the decency to tell me live."
In episode 51 of the Logan Bartlett Show, CEO coach Matt Mochary who coached a number of the most prominent investors and CEOs in Silicon Valley including:
Sam Altman from OpenAI
Brian Armstrong from Coinbase
Vlad from Robinhood
Naval from AngelList
Ivan from Notion
Peter Fenton from Benchmark
Alfred Lin and Pat Grady from Sequoia
Parker Conrad from Rippling
Steve Huffman from Reddit
Max Rohdes from Faire
Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner
Matt and Logan discuss what led to him becoming a CEO coach, his philosophies and tactics for running a company, and what makes him resonate with such a diverse set of CEO personalities.
Matt is also the author of the book, The Great CEO Within written with Alex Macaw.
(0:00) Intro
(1:48) Welcome Matt Mochary
(9:52) Resonating with people of such diverse personality types
(22:08) Fear leads to people making the wrong decision
(24:36) Matt’s Process
(30:30) 4 Zones of Genius
(40:09) CEO Tactics
(46:27) Philosophies
(57:04) Offboarding
(1:10:19) Having a hard conversation
(1:14:16) Boards are the death of every great investor
(1:22:20) Quick hitters
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.
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