Operators

Babak Siavoshy has had a remarkable legal career focused on privacy and civil liberties, having worked on the landmark Supreme Court Case, States v Jones. He then got into tech, working first at Palantir as their Global Data Protection Officer, and now at Anduril

In this episode we talked about States v Jones, the ethics of working in defense, the role of a general counsel at a startup, and much more.

I hope you enjoy the show.

Today’s guest, Zach Kitschke, is one of the earliest employees at Canva. During his time there he has had a few roles, including head of people, head of brand and marketing, and head of comms. With such a wide range of roles we talked about how early employees can scale up with a company, how Canva maintains such a strong and distinct culture, and how to effectively switch between operating disciplines.

I hope you enjoy the show.

Today’s guest, Sanne Manders, is COO of Flexport. We chat about everything from scaling international logistics, how to make your startup more full-stack over time, and their covid PPE-delivery project.

I hope you enjoy the show.

Today’s guest, Brett Browman, has been head of performance marketing at two killer startups in a row.  He first worked at Square, now publicly trading at $37b, then Opendoor which just raised at $4b, I hope you enjoy the show.

My guest is Richard Ni, formerly the first recruiter and then head of recruiting at Cruise which got bought for $1b, and now the head of people at ScaleAI, which was recently valued a $1b in a round led by Founder’s Fund.

Richard has a very unique background for the world of HR/people given he studied computer science at MIT the same year as me. I think it gives him an incredibly unique perspective on how to manage recruiting and talent, I think you’ll enjoy our conversation.

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Kelly Wright is today’s guest who led Tableau from $0 -> $1b in ARR. In this episode we discuss sales culture, how to interview reps, what companies fail at in go-to-market and how Kelly got into sales and scaled Tableau.

Hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think. I’ll have this cross-published to Apple Podcasts etc later today