Guest: John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins
After Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr first invested in Google — $12.8 million for 13 percent of the company — he told co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that they needed to hire a CEO to help them build the business. After they took meetings with a variety of successful tech execs, they came back to Doerr and told him “We’ve got some good news and some bad news.” The good news was that they agreed on the need for a CEO; the bad news, Doerr recalls, is that they believed there was only one person qualified for the role: The then-CEO of Pixar and interim CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs.
In this encore presentation of the 100th episode of Grit, John and Joubin discuss the urgent need to act on the climate crisis, getting turned down by Kleiner Perkins, CEOs as sales leaders, the microprocessor revolution, balancing between work and family, the opportunity of AI and sustainability, what makes Jeff Bezos special, Bing Gordon and the invention of Amazon Prime, the Google CEO search, how the iPhone nearly killed Apple, Steve Jobs’ greatest gift, Bill Gates’ philanthropy, and how Doerr divides his time.
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President of Field Operations at BetterUp, Marc Maloy: Building Better Organizations by Building Successful People
CEO Incorta, Scott Jones: From Running Sales to Running a Company, and Everything in Between
Head of eSports at Activision Blizzard, Brandon Snow: Building 'Generational Fandom' of Professional Video Game Teams
Head of Revenue and BD at Asana, Oliver Jay: The Cutting Edge of Product-Led Growth
SVP Sales at Affirm, Eric Morse: Exploring The Partnership Between Engineering and Sales
CRO Front, LB Harvey: Moving Up-Market + Operational Excellence
CRO/CSO Dialpad, Dan O’Connell: Taking Risks and Running a Company
CCO Figma, Amanda Kleha: The Strategies Behind Figma’s $10 Billion Valuation
CRO Okta, Steve Rowland: Identifying and Developing Future Business Leaders
CRO Thrive, Renu Gupta: Building Positive Personal and Professional Habits
SVP Sales at Iterable, Jan Zeman: Hiring and Coaching Successful Sales Talent
Chief Customer Officer at Xero, Rachael Powell: The Power of Positive Psychology: Creating Authentic Company Cultures
President of Sprout Social, Ryan Barretto: Establishing a Compelling Company Vision
SVP Revenue at GitHub, Erica Anderson: Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up Sales Motions
CRO DataStax, Harry Ault: The Three Steps to a Successful Tech Company Turnaround
VP Unity Technologies, Laura Palmer: Going The Extra Mile: Forging Meaningful Customer Connections
President and COO Golden State Warriors, Brandon Schneider: Building One of the NBA’s Most Valuable Teams
CRO RealReal, Kayti Sullivan: Setting Priorities in Work and in Life
CRO UiPath, Thomas Hansen: Balancing the Art and Science of Sales
VP of Global Professional Services at PayPal, Marcy Campbell: Risk and Reward: Creating Successful Sales Organizations
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