Episode Summaries

Aug. 3, 2023

Summary: How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary

Matt Mochary, the CEO of Mochary Method, is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and finance, including investor Naval Ravikant and the CEOs of Notion, OpenAI, Coinbase, Reddit, and many others. He foun…

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Aug. 3, 2023

Summary: An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)

Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma. His experience spans Microsoft (Hotmail, Windows), YouTube (iOS app), and Uber, where he developed a lot of his current product philosophy. Toward the end of his time at Uber he switched from …

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Aug. 1, 2023

Summary: Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)

Gergely Orosz has the #1 engineering newsletter on Substack. He graduated with a computer science degree, worked at a small web agency, and slowly progressed in his career. He moved from Hungary to the U.K. to work at Skype and Microsoft. He was t…

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July 31, 2023

Summary: Ultimate guide to Product Led Sales with Elena Verna

Elena Verna has led growth at some of today’s most successful B2B businesses, including Miro as CMO, SurveyMonkey as SVP of Growth, and now at Amplitude as interim Head of Growth. She’s advised on growth for MongoDB, Clockwise, and Net…

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July 28, 2023

Summary: Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, SurveyMonkey)

Elena Verna has led growth at some of today’s most successful B2B businesses, including Miro as CMO, SurveyMonkey as SVP of Growth, and now at Amplitude as interim Head of Growth. She’s advised on growth for MongoDB, Clockwise, and Net…

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July 28, 2023

When to quit your job: Ada Chen weighs in

It took just seven years for Ada Chen Rekhi to go from entry-level sales at Microsoft to SVP of marketing at SurveyMonkey. Not to mention she founded her first company (and sold it to LinkedIn) along the way. But Ada didn’t start her career w…

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July 27, 2023

Defining your ideal customer profile: Pete Kazanjy's perspective

Pete Kazanjy might be the top sales analytics expert on the planet.  He co-founded Atrium, a game-changing data-driven sales management SaaS company, and Modern Sales Pros, the world’s largest community for go-to-market leaders. He also …

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July 24, 2023

Ethan Smith: The power of internal linking for SEO

What do MasterClass, Medium, and Upwork have in common?  They’re hugely successful companies that knew search engines like Google and Bing could play a significant role in their growth — and they all turned to search engine optimiz…

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