Guest: Taylor Francis, co-founder of Watershed
One day when he was 13, Taylor Francis walked out of the movie theater, and he was pissed off. He had just seen Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and internalized a “generational call to arms, that my parents had screwed our generation” by causing the climate crisis, he says. 14 years later, he was working at Stripe and felt another call to arms: The 2020s would be a crucial decade for slashing carbon emissions and combating global warming. So, he and his co-founders Avi Itskovich and Christian Anderson all left Stripe to start Watershed, which helps companies measure and reduce their emissions.
In this episode, Taylor and Joubin discuss Patrick Collison, Dan Miller-Smith, hiring challenges, Jonathan Neman, “golden age syndrome,” John Doerr and Mike Moritz, the Climate Reality Project, steady partnerships, DRI cultures, shared context, social distancing, information sprawl, and the founders’ “woe is me” narrative.
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Founder & CEO Freshworks, Girish Mathrubootham: Success Is In the Big Things, Happiness Is In the Small Things
CMO Riot Games, Jason Bunge: Change Is Inevitable, Get Used To It
Co-Founder & CEO Charm Industrial, Peter Reinhardt: “All That Matters Is What the Customers Are Telling You”
Co-Founder & CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling
Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO
Founder & CEO Flock Safety, Garrett Langley: Tech That Makes Everyone Safer
COO Ironclad, Leyla Seka: More Equal Is Always Better
Chief Freemium Business Officer at Spotify, Alex Norstrom: The Power of Setting Impossible Goals
Founder & CEO Thrive, Arianna Huffington: Life Is About More Than Money and Power
CMO Airtable, Archana Agrawal: Success Is Not a Formula
CMO Square, Lauren Weinberg: Self-made boss
Co-Founder & CEO Handshake, Garrett Lord: The Billion-Dollar Question That Changed College Recruiting
CMO Thoughtspot, Scott Holden: Tactics, Strategy, and Downhill Skiing
Co-founder & CEO ZoomInfo, Henry Schuck: This Job Is Not Supposed to Be Fun
CRO Articulate, Jaimie Buss: A Problem Solver That Happens to be Good at Sales
CMO Tinder, George Felix: Trusting Your Gut, ‘Smelling Like a Man,’ and Swiping Right
VP of Sales at Hopin, Javier Ortega Estrada: Ingredients for High Growth and a Good Paella
President at Confluent, Erica Schultz: Cashing in on Your Currency
CRO Zoom, Ryan Azus: It’s Not Zoom Fatigue, It’s Work Fatigue
CCO Instabase, Ozge Ozcan: Rising and Falling - Like a Phoenix
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