Lessons from Scaling Stripe

Lenny’s Podcast | 5 March 2023 | 1h 21m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Claire Hughes Johnson about her book Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building. Shares insights from her time at Google and Stripe on how to successfully build and scale organizations, the importance of building self-awareness, tactical advice on how to say things that are hard to say, as well as how to improve your internal communications, and more.

 

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William Magnuson – For Profit: A History of Corporations

The Michael Shermer Show | 4 February 2023 | 1h 36m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with William Magnuson about his book For Profit: A History of Corporations. Traces the history of corporations from Rome onwards, arguing that modern corporations should recapture the spirit of civic virtue so that all stakeholders, not just shareholders benefit from the profits of enterprise.

 

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Uri Levine on Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

The James Altucher Show | 19 January 2023 | 1h 05m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Uri Levine about his book Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs. Draws on his experience founding Waze, the crowd-sourced GPS navigation platform, to advocate an approach to entrepreneurship that is problem-based rather than innovation-based.

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Power Failure: What Happened to GE?

The Next Big Idea | 19 January 2023 | 0h 58m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with William Cohan about his book Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. Explores the role and responsibility of Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt in the downfall of General Electric, formerly the most valuable company in the world.

See also Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?

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Bethany McLean – Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries

The Lunar Society | 21 December 2022 | 1h 25m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Bethany McLean discussing the astounding similarities between Enron & FTX, how visionaries are just frauds who succeed (and which category describes Elon Musk), what caused 2008, and whether we are headed for a new crisis, why there are too many venture capitalists and not enough short sellers, and why history keeps repeating itself.

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How to Fire People with Grace, Work Through Fear, and Nurture Innovation

Lenny’s Podcast | 10 November 2022 | 1h 11m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Matt Mochary discussing his framework for approaching layoffs, how productivity goes up with fewer people, what to pay attention to when you feel angry or fearful, how to build new products within a larger company, how to make sure everyone in the organization feels valued and heard, and more. Draws from his book The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building and his Mochary Method Curriculum.

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Sam Tatam – Evolutionary Ideas For Modern Problems

Modern Wisdom | 15 October 2022 | 1h 12m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Sam Tatam about his book Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow’s Challenges. Discusses the application of evolutionary solutions to modern problems, covering how the wings of an owl helped fix problems in the bullet train, how the ears of a hare assist wind turbines, why Google Glass failed, why airline tickets are so confusing, how companies can aid customer decision without limiting choice, and more.

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Ali Tamaseb on Super Founders

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc | 13 October 2021 | 0h 51m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Ali Tamaseb about his book Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups. Draws from the 30,000 data points in his manually collected dataset on start-ups to bust myths about entrepreneurship and startups. Discusses his findings on founder patterns, the importance of having technical and non-technical founders onboard, VC biases funding startups, defensibility and scale, and accelerator programs.

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