B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg)

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B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg) episodes

July 15, 2020 How to Hate Losing (George Kurtz, Founder & CEO of Crowdstrike)
George Kurtz, the founder and CEO of Crowdstrike, the most successful cybersecurity company of the past decade, is the very special guest for this episode. George joins Ashu for in-depth conversation on everything from hiring, to board composition, to balancing a hybrid product-and-services model. George also gives specific advice for all you security founders listening.
52 min
June 12, 2020 How to Go to Market (Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder & CEO of Databricks)
On this episode, we have Ali Ghodsi, cofounder and CEO of Databricks, a cloud platform for massive scale data engineering and collaborative data science.
For the first third of the podcast, Ali tells us the story of how a research project at the AMP Lab at UC Berkeley grew into Databricks. This will be of particular interest to anyone who wants to know how to commercialize open source.
After that, Ali gives listeners a crash course on how to build an early stage go-to-market machine—from how and who to hire, to how to coordinate sales and marketing, to how to execute. It's a fantastic bootcamp for startup CEOs.
44 min
April 21, 2020 How to Make Your CEO Dreams Come True (Mark Leslie, Managing General Partner at Leslie Ventures)
In part 2 of my interview with Mark Leslie, we dive deeper into his experience founding Veritas and leading it to become a Fortune 100 software company. We hear more about Mark’s eventual departure from his role as CEO to his current passion for teaching and investing.
32 min
April 01, 2020 How to Get Through the Covid-19 Crisis (Various)
This special episode of the podcast is part oral history of when the plague came to Silicon Valley and part anthology of advice for startups dealing with the fallout of Covid-19. Five CEOs and one CFO, at companies ranging from early stage to public market, share their experiences of coping with the business impact of the pandemic and offer advice for how best to manage through the crisis. The guests for this episode are Mohit Aron, CEO at Cohesity; Andrew Feldman, CEO at Cerebras Systems; Jack Lazar, former CFO; Mark Leslie, retired CEO at Veritas Technologies; Jonathan Siddharth, CEO at Turing; and Derek Steer, CEO at Mode.
48 min
March 18, 2020 How to Manage Your Board & Everything Else (Mark Leslie, Managing General Partner at Leslie Ventures)
Mark Leslie is the founder & CEO of Veritas Technology, a company he grew from an idea to a Fortune 100 powerhouse worth over $1B in revenue. My interview with Mark was so full of wisdom that we decided there was enough material for at least two episodes. In this first episode, I get into the weeds with Mark on topics ranging from how to manage your board, to pricing and sales, to annual planning. It’s a can’t-miss for all CEOs or CEO-hopefuls!
31 min
January 31, 2020 How to Be Your Best CEO Self (Dane Holewinski, Startup Founder & CEO Coach at Decode)
For the first episode of the new year and new decade, a startup-founder-turned-CEO coach offers some guidance on being your best CEO self.
26 min
December 16, 2019 How to Be a VC Jr. (Adi Garg & Ashu Garg)
This one is for you really, really early-stage founders. Fifth-grader Adi Garg interviews his dad about startups and venture capital and chocolate.
24 min
November 21, 2019 How to Change the World (Ion Stoica, Executive Chairman & Former CEO of Databricks; & Co-Founder of Conviva)
Two-time founder/CEO, and Berkeley computer science professor, Ion Stoica chats with Ashu about what it means to have an impact and how to go from academic to entrepreneur.
19 min
October 31, 2019 How to Scale Sales (Sudheesh Nair and Ajeet Singh of ThoughtSpot)
Sudheesh Nair and Ajeet Singh discuss the tricky process of handing off the CEO baton. They also go deep on how to build a world-class sales organization.
41 min
September 23, 2019 How to Create a Mission-Driven Culture (Jennifer Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty)
Jennifer Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty, puts people and relationships at the forefront of her business strategy. In this episode of the podcast, she tells me what she’s learned as a two-time CEO and how important it is to create a good company culture with diverse talent.
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Jennifer Tejada joins PagerDuty
https://www.pagerduty.com/newsroom/pagerduty-appoints-saas-industry-veteran-jennifer-tejada-as-ceo/
PagerDuty’s IPO
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/11/pagerdutys-ipo-values-it-at-18-billion--heres-why-it-had-doubters-early-on/#492fc12632b3
Jennifer rings the NYSE opening bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtRKFLOHXuU
Inclusivity as good business strategy
https://www.inc.com/ryan-jenkins/here-are-benefits-of-inclusion-how-to-create-an-inclusive-culture.html
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/delivering-through-diversity
36 min

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