Guest: Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness
Cisco bought Jyoti Bansal’s first company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, making him a very wealthy man. But after two African safaris, a week of Michelin-starred meals in Tokyo, and more adventures all around the world, he realized that spending his money didn’t truly make him happy. After some soul-searching, he realized what he really enjoyed: “I liked to build companies. That is my craft ... If someone enjoys playing gold for six hours, I would enjoy working on a startup for six hours.”
In this episode, Jyoti and Joubin discuss the evolution of Grit, Carlos Delatorre, Tom Mendoza, Glean, growing up in India, traveling the world, three-star restaurants, soul-searching, automating gruntwork, paying for nice hotels, red-eye flights, product-market fit, Jeff Bezos, the “three-layered cake,” Frank Slootman, raising the bar for distribution, technical debt, structural efficiency, and taking pride in your work.
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#130 Former Vice President Al Gore: Relentless
#129 CRO Zapier, Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti: Recheck, Rebalance
#128 Former COO and Corporate Officer at Stripe, Claire Hughes Johnson: Scaling People
#127 CEO Intuit Mailchimp, Rania Succar: Consistent Inner Equilibrium
#126 CRO Gem, Lesley Young: Hard Yards
#125 CRO Starburst, Javier Molina: Reading Cues
#124 Founding CRO at Procore, Dennis Lyandres: Defining "Winning"
#123 CEO GitHub, Thomas Dohmke: Open-Source Values
#122 President and Board Member at Freshworks, Dennis Woodside: What If This Goes Really Well?
#121 Founder and Co-CEO Brex, Henrique Dubugras: Pivot or Else
#120 Chairman & CEO ServiceNow, Bill McDermott: Full Speed Ahead
#119 Co-founder and CEO Gong, Amit Bendov: No Royalty
#118 Dean of Stanford GSB, Jonathan Levin: Innovation Engines
#117 Co-founder and COO Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn: A Better Internet
#116 Grit Recap: 9 Intersections of Personal and Professional
#115 Executive Board Member at SAP, Scott Russell: Chief Optimist Officer
#114 CMO GE, Linda Boff: Play ‘Til the Whistle
#113 CEO PagerDuty, Jennifer Tejada: The Re-Finder
#112 Former President at Tesla / CEO of DVx Ventures, Jon McNeill: First-Principles
#111 Founder and CEO Whoop, Will Ahmed: Unlocking Optimal Human Performance
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