Guest: Dev Ittycheria, CEO and President of MongoDB
When you think about who you were and the decisions you made two, or four, or eight years ago ... how do you feel? Dev Ittycheria, the President and CEO of MongoDB, says he’s embarrassed about certain things he did — and that’s a good thing. “If you’re not [embarrassed], that means you’re not really growing that fast,” he says. He recalled one of his mentors, former BladeLogic chairman Steve Walske, explaining that everyone has an overinflated opinion of themselves, and the great leaders keep the gap between that opinion and reality narrow. One of the hallmarks of such a leader, Dev says, is that they have the intellectually honesty to recognize their own strengths and weaknesses, which others perceive.
In this episode, Dev and Joubin discuss looking for bad news, chips on your shoulder, Ivy League schools, being an outsider, highly educated parents, “aging out,” Bruce Springsteen, Chief People Officers, Frank Slootman and John McMahon, passive aggression, vulnerability as strength, imposter syndrome, open-source licenses, introverts, and time management.
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#169 CEO and Founder Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer: The Burden of Persona
#168 CEO and Founder Glean, Arvind Jain w/ Mamoon Hamid: New Playbook
#167 CEO StockX, Scott Cutler: Detroit’s First Unicorn
#166 Executive Chairman and Former CEO Attentive, Brian Long: Problem Hunting
#165 Former CEO and Co-Founder of Zillow, Spencer Rascoff: Real Estate Voyeurism
#164 CEO and Co-Founder Duolingo, Luis von Ahn: "The Pitch Was Never Pittsburgh"
#163 CEO Bill, René Lacerte: Hourglass Leadership
#162 CEO and Co-Founder Rippling, Parker Conrad w/ Mamoon Hamid: Compounding
#161 Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite, Evan Goldberg: Endless Possibilities
#160 CEO Grammarly, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: Better, Not More
#159 CEO 1Password, Jeff Shiner: Chief Eliminator of Obstacles
#158 CRO Anduril Industries, Matt Steckman: On Defense
#157 CEO Udemy, Greg Brown: The Plunge
#156 CRO Snowflake, Chris Degnan: Part 2
#155 CEO Yahoo, Jim Lanzone: Brand Rejuvenation
#154 Remix: Tornadoes, Unicorn Meat, and Hypergrowth Sales
#153 COO and CRO Weights & Biases, Yan-David Erlich: ML’s Moment
#152 CEO Gainsight, Nick Mehta: Human-First
#151 CEO Outreach, Manny Medina: 10M or Die
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