Grit

CEO and Founder of Netskope, Sanjay Beri, shares his entrepreneurial journey, discussing topics like stress, raising capital, hiring for grit, and navigating internal politics. Reflects on the importance of resilience, personal sales engagement, and building a legacy in data security innovation.

Former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy, shares insights on leadership, the heyday of Sun, father-son dynamics in sports, profitable ventures, executive exits, open-source education, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the evolution of AI.

Jyoti Bansal discusses selling AppDynamics to Cisco, his shift in what truly makes him happy, starting BIG Labs and Harness, and the importance of work-life balance. The podcast covers CROs, the challenges of high-growth companies, and reflections on success in building successful companies.

CEO and co-founder of Cribl, Clint Sharp, discusses the challenges of growing a remote company, filing bug reports as the CEO, and setting an example. Topics include fast growth, funding from friends and family, and navigating legal issues in the software industry. They also touch on enterprise challenges with data and AI strategies.

On this podcast, CEO Glen Tullman shares insights on hiring low and firing high, failures of leadership, changing expectations, and radical honesty. He discusses his competitive childhood, charitable efforts, and maximizing efficiency through physical activity and time management. The conversation also covers transformative mergers in healthcare, philanthropic endeavors, and the significance of grit in business.

CEO of Verkada discusses personal growth challenges as company scales, importance of fixing mistakes, office culture, impact of COVID-19, fundraising, building a camera company, time management, biggest screw-ups, and VR technology advancements.

CEO and Co-founder of Zapier discusses remote companies, long-term thinking, hiring practices, and doubting oneself. Topics include Bruce Lee's influence, fully remote work, benefits of hackathons, scaling challenges, utilizing AI, and the importance of grit in business.

Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor, discusses regret minimization, Juice Software, Sheryl Sandberg, negative truths, founders as outliers, Jack Dorsey, and failing colleagues. Topics include loud voices, writing a bestseller, and coaching tech CEOs.

Daniela Amodei, President and co-founder of Anthropic, discusses the challenges of working in the generative AI industry, the release of Claude II and the concept of constitutional AI, and understanding public benefit corporations in the AI industry. They also explore the unique dynamics of the AI industry, improving the interview process, and the comparisons to Sheryl Sandberg.

Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB, discusses the importance of intellectual honesty, being vulnerable, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. They explore topics like looking for bad news, Ivy League schools, imposter syndrome, introverts, and time management.