80. Evan Epstein - Governance disasters: cautionary tales from Silicon Valley’s boards

Evan Epstein is host of the Boardroom Governance podcast, #1 governance podcast in the US, executive director at the Centre for Business Law, adjunct professor at University of California Law and founder and managing partner at Pacifica Global. Tune in to hear his thoughts on: What are your top five insights from your podcast guests? (0:54) What level of involvement do board members need to be non-amateurs? (3:52) What is the value of independent board members? (5:27) Can you talk about Tyler Shultz’s insight “fraud is not a trade secret”? (10:05) What lessons can board members take from Theranos? (15:59) How would you sell governance to a sceptical CEO? (18:49) What went wrong at Open AI? (21:51) What could the Open AI board have done differently? (28:01) What patterns do you see in silicon valley governance explosions? (30:43) What options do boards have with high-risk, high-return Founders? (33:02) ⚡The Lightning Round ⚡(38:06) 

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