#224 CTO & Co-Owner 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson: Perfect Flow

#223 Great Stories and Gritty Advice for 2025

#222 CEO San Francisco Giants, Larry Baer: Winning Plays

#221 CEO & Chairman Sony Pictures, Tony Vinciquerra: Into the Fire

#220 Former CEO Amazon Worldwide Consumer, Jeff Wilke: Exponential

#219 CEO Tanium, Dan Streetman: Critical Responsibility

#218 CEO Etsy, Josh Silverman: Second Acts

#217 CEO & Co-Founder Codeium, Varun Mohan w/ Leigh Marie Braswell: Limitless

#216 Founder Khan Academy, Sal Khan: Dangerously Curious

#215 COO Rippling Matt MacInnis: Learn the Engine

#214 Former CEO Hulu & WarnerMedia Jason Kilar: No Labels

#213 CEO & Co-Founder Loom Joe Thomas w/ Ilya Fushman: After the Exit

#212 Founder Magic Leap & SynthBee Rony Abovitz: Underdog

#211 CEO & Co-Founder Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski: Country Cousin

#210 CEO & Co-Founder Huntress Kyle Hanslovan w/ Ev Randle: Deep Roots

#209 Former President & CEO Ford, Mark Fields: All Cylinders

#208 CEO & Co-Founder Patreon, Jack Conte: Crowd Surfer

#207 Co-Founder & Chairman Zynga, Mark Pincus: Speed of Play

#206 CEO & Founder Rivian, RJ Scaringe: Electrified

#205 CEO Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy: Visibility

#204 Founder & Former CEO Blue Bottle, James Freeman: After the Exit

#203 CEO Niantic, John Hanke: Buried Ships

#202 Chairman of Qualcomm, Mark McLaughlin: The Right Pitch

#201 CEO Lyft, David Risher: The Ride

#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle

#199 CEO & Co-Founder Klaviyo, Andrew Bialecki: High Slope

#198 CEO & Co-Founder Wayfair, Niraj Shah: Homeward

#197 CEO, Chairman & Founder Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry: No Attachment

#196 CEO & Co-Founder Braze, Bill Magnuson: Principles of Change

#195 CEO Salesforce AI, Clara Shih: Above the Clouds

#194 CEO & Founder Sunshine, Marissa Mayer: Innovative Instincts

#193 Former CEO Nextdoor, Sarah Friar: Four Circles

#192 CTO & Co-Founder Discord, Stanislav Vishnevskiy: Ship It

#191 CEO & Co-Founder Intercom, Eoghan McCabe: Second Beginning

#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds

#189 Co-Founder Watershed, Taylor Francis: Worthy Missions

#188 CEO & Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the Room

#187 President & COO of AG1, Kat Cole: Wings to Supplements

#186 COO Asana, Anne Raimondi: Recovering Perfectionist

#185 CEO & Founder Netskope, Sanjay Beri: The Trenches

#184 Former CEO & Co-Founder Sun, Scott McNealy: In the Piñata

#183 CEO & Co-Founder Harness, Jyoti Bansal: Three-Layered Cake

#182 CEO & Co-Founder Cribl, Clint Sharp: Finding Traction

#181 CEO Transcarent, Glen Tullman: Problem Solving

#180 CEO & Co-Founder Verkada, Filip Kaliszan: Outlier

#179 CEO & Co-Founder Zapier, Wade Foster: Missouri’s Connector

#178 Author of “Radical Candor,” Kim Scott: Uncommon Sense

#177 President & Co-Founder Anthropic, Daniela Amodei: AI Hurricane

#176 CEO MongoDB, Dev Ittycheria: Edge

#175 CEO Snowflake, Frank Slootman: Amped

#174 CEO & Co-Founder Ginkgo Bioworks, Jason Kelly: Life Finds a Way

#173 Author of “The Qualified Sales Leader,” John McMahon: The Five-Time CRO

#172 Professor at UPenn & Author, Angela Duckworth: Grit

#171 Founder & Former CEO Drift, David Cancel: Never Trapped

#170 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors (Encore)

#169 CEO & Founder Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer: The Burden of Persona

#168 CEO & Founder Glean, Arvind Jain w/ Mamoon Hamid: New Playbook

#167 CEO StockX, Scott Cutler: Detroit’s First Unicorn

#166 Executive Chairman & Former CEO Attentive, Brian Long: Problem Hunting

#165 Former CEO & Co-Founder of Zillow, Spencer Rascoff: Real Estate Voyeurism

#164 CEO & Co-Founder Duolingo, Luis von Ahn: "The Pitch Was Never Pittsburgh"

#163 CEO Bill, René Lacerte: Hourglass Leadership

#162 CEO & Co-Founder Rippling, Parker Conrad w/ Mamoon Hamid: Compounding

#161 Founder & 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 & CRO Weights & Biases, Yan-David Erlich: ML’s Moment

#152 CEO Gainsight, Nick Mehta: Human-First

#151 CEO Outreach, Manny Medina: 10M or Die

#150 CEO Box, Aaron Levie w/ Mamoon Hamid: Open For Business

#149 Co-CEO Workday, Carl Eschenbach: A Life of Significance

#148 Former Snowflake CEO, Bob Muglia: The Datapreneurs

#147 Ex-Waze CEO & Founder of Post News, Noam Bardin: Hockey Sticks and Plateaus

#146 Co-founder & CEO Rubrik, Bipul Sinha: Authenticity Reigns

#145 CRO Tealium, Ted Purcell: Snap Into It

#144 CEO Lacework, Jay Parikh: Quiet Intensity

#143 CEO HashiCorp, Dave McJannet: Phase Shifts

#142 President of DocuSign, Robert Chatwani: Get Uncomfortable

#141 CEO Navan, Ariel Cohen: Be Naive!

#140 CRO Walmart, Seth Dallaire: How You Show Up

#139 CEO Coach, Matt Mochary: Coaching Greatness

#138 CEO Motive, Shoaib Makani w/ Ilya Fushman: Powering the Physical Economy

#137 CEO Oura, Tom Hale: Business & Backgammon

#136 COO Modern Treasury, Rachel Pike: Golden Ticket

#135 CMO & CSO GitLab, Ashley Kramer: The Three Ps

#134 Chief Bizdev Officer at Uber, Jen Vescio: Buy, Build, or Partner

#133 CEO Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh Arora: Create Certainty

#132 Former 49ers Quarterback Alex Smith and Former Warriors Guard Shaun Livingston: Hard Steps

#131 Golden State Warriors Forward Andre Iguodala: The Sixth Man

#130 Former Vice President Al Gore: Relentless

#129 CRO Zapier, Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti: Recheck, Rebalance

#128 Former COO & 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 & Board Member at Freshworks, Dennis Woodside: What If This Goes Really Well?

#121 Founder & Co-CEO Brex, Henrique Dubugras: Pivot or Else

#120 Chairman & CEO ServiceNow, Bill McDermott: Full Speed Ahead

#119 Co-founder & CEO Gong, Amit Bendov: No Royalty

#118 Dean of Stanford GSB, Jonathan Levin: Innovation Engines

#117 Co-founder & 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

#110 Former CRO / Advisor at Notion, Olivia Nottebohm: Grow Fast or Die Slow

#109 Co-founder & CEO, Databricks Ali Ghodsi: The Difference Between Truth and Data

#108 COO Zscaler, Dali Rajic: If You’re Not Always Learning, You’ll Get Wiped Out

#107 Founding CRO at Flexport, Ben Braverman: The Power of Genuine Curiosity

#106 Co-founder & CEO Sweetgreen, Jonathan Neman: The Restaurant Company of the Future

#105 AOL Founder & CEO Revolution, Steve Case: The Rise of the Rest

#104 Co-founder of Intuit, Scott Cook: The Power of Paradigms

#103 Founder & CEO Productboard, Hubert Palan w/ Ilya Fushman: Chasing Perfection

#102 CEO Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon: We’re In a Hurry to Get to the Future

#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed

#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors

CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind

Co-founder and CEO G2, Godard Abel: Finding Opportunity in Challenging Times

Founding CRO @HubSpot / Prof @HBS / CoFounder @Stage 2 Capital Mark Roberge: The Science and Psychology of Scaling

CMO Canva, Zach Kitschke: From Employee Number 5 To $40 Billion Valuation

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

#87 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

CMO Samsara, Sarah Patterson: What You Do vs. Why It Matters

CRO Calendly, Kate Ahlering: Embracing Leadership - On and Off the Basketball Court

CEO Loom, Joe Thomas: Communication, the Mother of All Skills

President at Databricks, Andy Kofoid: Reinvention at Any Stage

Former CEO Splunk, Doug Merritt: Creating 360° Order in Chaos

CEO Stord, Sean Henry: Supply Chains... Are Fun?

Former President at NetApp, Tom Mendoza: Sustaining Urgency and Injecting Tension

President, Global Strategic Customers at Salesforce, Jim Steele: Measuring Your Facetime

CMO Attentive, Sara Varni: Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers

CRO Nextdoor, Heidi Andersen: Nurturing an Elastic Mind

CMO Rippling, Matt Epstein: Building the Supermarket of SaaS

CMO TripActions, Meagen Eisenberg: The Joy of Living in Awkward

CRO Unqork, Philip Lacor: Playing the Infinite Game

CBO Duolingo, Bob Meese: Carrying Culture Through Language

CRO Pendo, Jennifer Brannigan: Un-designing Your Leadership Path

CRO Rubrik, Brian McCarthy: Embedding Missionary Values Into Company Culture

President and COO Coinbase, Emilie Choi: Rising Through the Crypto Ranks

COO Bloomreach, Christy Augustine: Thin Mints and Company Building

CEO Alteryx, Mark Anderson: Transformation Starts with Leadership

CEO Relativity, Mike Gamson: Fueling the Next Technology Ecosystems

CRO Stripe, Mike Clayville: Building Tornado Companies

Chief Business Officer at Compass, Rob Lehman: Leadership by Fire

COO Cameo, Brian Frank: From Professional Networks to Celebrity Networks

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

CRO Gong, Ryan Longfield: Finding Comfort in the Uncomfortable: Redefining Failure

CEO Cassidy Ventures, Brendon Cassidy: LinkedIn, Echosign + Talkdesk: Building Successful Startup Sales Teams

CRO Box, Mark Wayland: Forging Positive Sales Cultures

VP Sales Impossible Foods, Dana Worth: From Gourmet to Fast-Food: How He Built Impossible Foods’ Go-To-Market

CRO Cloudflare, Chris Merritt: Creating an Authentic Content-driven Strategy

SVP Salesforce, Mike Wolff: Tips for Becoming a More Effective Sales Leader

CSO Relativity, Peter Kim: The Values of a People-Centric Leader

CRO PagerDuty, Dave Justice: The Principles of Successful Crisis Leadership

CRO Amplitude, Matt Heinz: Exploring The Mindset of a Successful Sales Leader

SVP Global Strategic Services at UiPath, Jay Snyder: Driving Customer Engagement Through Value-Based Selling

CRO Clari, Kevin Knieriem: Exploring the Benefits of Data-Driven Sales

CRO ServiceTitan, Ross Biestman: ‘Team Before Self’: Motivating High-Performing Salespeople

CRO Snowflake, Chris Degnan: Building Snowflake’s Successful Sales Organization from the Ground Up

CRO Flexport, Will Urban: Streamlining Global Trade With Revolutionary Technology

Founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, Qasar Younis: Creating Customer-Oriented Company Cultures

Board Director at Fastly, Kelly Wright: How She Went from Selling Door to Door to Board Director

CRO Auth0, Dave Wilner: Discussing Growth and Leadership

CRO Atlassian, Cameron Deatsch: Exploring Atlassian’s Unorthodox Strategy

CRO Twilio, Marc Boroditsky: A Behind the Scenes Look at Twilio’s Go to Market Strategy

SVP and Head of Sales at AppsFlyer, Mar Brandt: Leadership Insights

COO of LinkedIn, Dan Shapero: Discussing Go to Market Leadership

B2B General Manager of Calm, Jim Herbold: Describing ‘Unicorn Meat’

VP and GM at Shopify, Loren Padelford: Breaking the Rules in Sales

SVP Sales Modern Health, Hannah Willson: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health in Sales

Chief Sales Officer at Brex, Sam Blond: Recruiting Talent

CRO Cockroach Labs, Jeff Miller: Building an Effective Open Source Go to Market Strategy

VP Sales at Mixpanel, Meka Asonye: Exploring Analytics, High Velocity Sales, and Stigmas

CRO CircleCI, Jane Kim: Leading with Vulnerability and Making Mistakes

CRO TripActions, Carlos Delatorre: The Science of Sales

CRO Obsidian Security, Bob Kruse: Building a Winning Sales Culture

VP of Sales at Palo Alto Networks, Jeff StClair : Discovering, Recruiting, and Coaching Sales Talent

Chief Sales and Success Officer at Slack, Bob Frati: Exploring Slack’s Key Growth Levers and Competition

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