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Hiring and Managing Executives

Best practices for hiring and managing leaders

Mission, Strategy, and Metrics

Best practices for defining your mission, setting your strategy, and aligning the company around key metrics

Leading Leaders

Best practices for leading large teams

Operating Cadence & Cultural Norms

Best practices for maintaining speed of execution at scale

Scaling Engineering

Best practices for scaling your engineering, product, and design function

Scaling People & Culture

Best practices for scaling your people systems and building a winning culture

Financial Planning and Fundraising

Best practices for financial planning and raising growth stage capital

Alumni Sessions & Session Insights

Scaling B2B GTM

Dev Ittycheria shares insights from scaling MongoDB to $1.6B of ARR

Guest:

Dev Ittycheria (CEO of MongoDB)

Enterprise GTM

Leveraging AI in your company

Arvind Jain (CEO of Glean) walks through how he uses AI to run Glean

Guest:

Arvind Jain (CEO of Glean)

Artificial Intelligence

The History & State of AI

Matt Botvinick from DeepMind shares his views on pivotal moments in AI and what's next

Guest:

Matt Botvinick (Google DeepMind)

Artificial Intelligence

DoorDash on Scaling Finance

Guest:

Prabir Adarkar (COO DoorDash)

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Lattice and Faire on Scaling People

Guest:

Jack Altman (Founder, Lattice) & Neervi Patel (Head of People, Faire)

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Plaid and Replit on Scaling Engineering

Guest:

Jean-Denis (Plaid), Amjad Masad (Replit)

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Coda on Product Cadence

Guest:

Shishir Mehrotra (CEO at Coda)

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Deel on Operating Cadence

Guest:

Alex Bouaziz (CEO at Deel)

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Claire Hughes Johnson on Leading Leaders

Guest:

Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe)

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Whatnot & Segment on Mission, Strategy, and Metrics

Guest:

Grant LaFontaine (CEO at Whatnot), Peter Reinhardt (CEO at Segment, Charm)

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Brex & Webflow on Hiring & Managing Execs

Guest:

Vlad Magdalin (CEO at Webflow), Pedro Franceschi (CEO at Brex)

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Scaling Enterprise GTM

Greg Schott walks through enterprise GTM lessons learned from scaling Mulesoft from $1M to $800M ARR

Guest:

Greg Schott (Ex-CEO of Mulesoft)

Enterprise GTM

Executive Hiring

Podcasts

Episode 3: Monzo

TS candidly walks through his journey helping Monzo rediscover its mojo after COVID-19 and scale to $1B+ of Revenue

Episode 2: Rappi

Simon candidly walks through his biggest lessons scaling Rappi to 20M orders/month and profitability.

Episode 1: Carvana

Ernie walks through how he refocused the company, managed external perceptions, and built resilience in the business after the stock dropped 90%+.

Case Studies

Checkr's Financial Planning Process

Communicating the value of Equity

Compensation Philosophy

Promotions and Workforce Planning

Levels and Career Development

Manager expectation setting and training

Performance and Feedback Examples

HR and People Job Descriptions

Gusto: Driving alignment

Twitch: Monthly Business Review

Gusto: Executive Hiring Framework & Process

Scale: Executive Hiring Criteria

Generic Executive Interview Question Bank

DoorDash: Tony Xu's Criteria for Exec Hiring

Ironclad: VP of Sales

Faire: VP of Engineering

Case Study: Gusto's Guide to Employee Equity

Case Study: Leveling Example

Benchling: VP of Engineering