The Logan Bartlett Show

Silicon Valley Legend Claire Hughes Johnson shares her best operating advice on topics including attracting and convincing talent, understanding the player vs victim mindset, the power of diversity and inclusion, management vs leadership, the nature of adaptive leadership and the role of disappointment, change management analogy, and the special qualities and intelligence of two remarkable individuals.

In this podcast, Dario Amodei discusses various aspects of AI, including its future, safety concerns, and responsible scaling. They also touch on topics such as the memification of a CEO, AI bias, and the misuse of AI. The speakers express optimism about the potential of AI in fields like finance and medicine, while emphasizing the importance of interpretability in AI models.

The podcast discusses the early days of the internet, Cloudflare's mission to improve security and privacy, the importance of diverse founding teams, Lee Holloway's struggle with early onset dementia, hiring and company culture, the role of storytelling in leadership, fascination with fireworks and explosions, and the relationship between Google's IPO and search engines.

Jack Altman, Founding Lattice ($3B), talks about creating company culture, advantages of startups over big companies, hiring and firing strategies, building relationships with VCs, thoughts on AI, and leadership. They also discuss the annoyance of having the last name Altman, growing up in St. Louis, and the challenges and rewards of podcasting.

Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann, Co-authors, Founder VS Investor, discuss topics such as managing board meetings, the importance of investing in founders, navigating investor relationships, CEO transitions, investor experiences with unfulfilled promises, investment criteria and the role of capital in scaling, and the impact of raising money on a business.

Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO of Webflow, discusses essentialism, leadership vs. managerial ability, the Freedman Doctrine, fairness in compensation and remote work policies, early iterations of Webflow, lessons from failed entrepreneurship attempts, dealing with an IP lawsuit and obtaining a trademark, starting their own company, building a valuable and supported product, constraints and growth, immigrating to Sacramento and embracing entrepreneurship, interview questions, and gratitude journals.

Ryan Smith, the owner of the Utah Jazz and co-founder of Qualtrics, discusses buying the Jazz, applying tech lessons to basketball, getting rid of the RSN deal, starting a non-profit, views on productivity, becoming a CEO, dropping out of high school, Qualtrics journey, and creating the experience management category.

John McMahon, 5x CRO and Enterprise Sales Expert, talks about building an efficient sales org, the difference between a champion and a coach, best interview questions when hiring, the hardest part of transitioning to sales management, and the most common misconception about sales.

Palmer Luckey discusses being misrepresented by the media, his controversial donation to a pro-Trump group, founding Oculus and Anduril, and the ethical use of technology in war.

Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, an automation business most recently valued at $5 billion.In the episode, Wade discusses why Zapier only raised around $1M and unpacks Zapier’s strategies for growing profitably. Wade shares lessons from building one of the first remote-only companies in tech, including key tips for hiring, onboarding, building a great management team, and much more.Wade is definitely a first principles thinker around all things business. One of the most raw and engaging episodes to date.(0:00) Intro(0:50) What does Zapier do?(4:06) $1.3 million to $5 billion(12:27) Lessons learned from starting Zapier(17:23) Zapier's ecosystem and partners(23:24) What made Zapier outperform competitors?(28:31) Three friends from Missouri(32:35) Was it obvious who the successes were going to be?(40:36) Foundation of the board(45:18) The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work(50:45) Building trust among a remote employee base(53:47) Importance of onboarding experience(1:00:57) The future of remote work(1:06:06) Advice for new founders(1:08:50) Wade's interview style(1:15:30) Setting goals as a company(1:18:30) Are CEO coaches just snake oil?(1:23:44) SEO Landing Pages(1:27:47) What has you excited about artificial intelligence?(1:33:29) Relationship with Sam Altman(1:39:45) What would you tell 23-year-old Wade? Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan 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, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes. Executive Producer: Rashad AssirProducer: Leah ClapperMixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow📱 X - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan 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.Tap follow and enable notifications to stay ahead of the game.