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Grit

Grit explores what it takes to create, build, and scale world-class organizations. It features weekly episodes highlighting the leaders who are pushing their companies to make a difference. This series is hosted by Joubin Mirzadegan, go to market operating partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm investing in history-making founders.

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

72 hours 26 mins; March 18, 2024

#181 CEO Transcarent, Glen Tullman: Problem Solving

90 hours 17 mins; March 11, 2024

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

72 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2024

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

59 mins; February 26, 2024

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

69 hours 38 mins; February 19, 2024

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

106 hours 13 mins; February 12, 2024

#176 CEO MongoDB, Dev Ittycheria: Edge

65 hours 31 mins; February 05, 2024

#175 CEO Snowflake, Frank Slootman: Amped

53 mins; January 29, 2024

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

59 mins; January 22, 2024

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

93 hours 24 mins; January 15, 2024

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

71 hours 10 mins; January 08, 2024

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

73 hours 8 mins; January 01, 2024

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

66 hours 15 mins; December 25, 2023

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

62 hours 54 mins; December 18, 2023

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

45 mins; December 11, 2023

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

55 mins; December 04, 2023

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

64 hours 46 mins; November 27, 2023

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

71 hours 22 mins; November 20, 2023

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

63 hours 49 mins; November 13, 2023

#163 CEO Bill, René Lacerte: Hourglass Leadership

63 hours 10 mins; November 06, 2023

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

62 hours 26 mins; October 30, 2023

#161 Founder & EVP of Oracle NetSuite, Evan Goldberg: Endless Possibilities

65 hours 45 mins; October 23, 2023

#160 CEO Grammarly, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: Better, Not More

62 hours 56 mins; October 16, 2023

#159 CEO 1Password, Jeff Shiner: Chief Eliminator of Obstacles

64 hours 15 mins; October 09, 2023

#158 CRO Anduril Industries, Matt Steckman: On Defense

60 hours 11 mins; October 02, 2023

#157 CEO Udemy, Greg Brown: The Plunge

61 hours 28 mins; September 25, 2023

#156 CRO Snowflake, Chris Degnan: Part 2

53 mins; September 18, 2023

#155 CEO Yahoo, Jim Lanzone: Brand Rejuvenation

67 hours 21 mins; September 11, 2023

#154 Remix: Tornadoes, Unicorn Meat, and Hypergrowth Sales

67 hours 39 mins; September 04, 2023

#153 COO & CRO Weights & Biases, Yan-David Erlich: ML’s Moment

72 hours 18 mins; August 28, 2023

#152 CEO Gainsight, Nick Mehta: Human-First

72 hours 12 mins; August 21, 2023

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

66 hours 59 mins; August 14, 2023

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

62 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2023

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

82 hours 4 mins; July 31, 2023

#148 Former Snowflake CEO, Bob Muglia: The Datapreneurs

81 hours 2 mins; July 24, 2023

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

89 hours 47 mins; July 17, 2023

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

69 hours 45 mins; July 10, 2023

#145 CRO Tealium, Ted Purcell: Snap Into It

67 hours 56 mins; July 03, 2023

#144 CEO Lacework, Jay Parikh: Quiet Intensity

70 hours 46 mins; June 26, 2023

#143 CEO HashiCorp, Dave McJannet: Phase Shifts

74 hours 37 mins; June 19, 2023

#142 President of DocuSign, Robert Chatwani: Get Uncomfortable

77 hours 26 mins; June 12, 2023

#141 CEO Navan, Ariel Cohen: Be Naive!

77 hours 0 mins; June 05, 2023

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

65 hours 46 mins; May 29, 2023

#139 CEO Coach, Matt Mochary: Coaching Greatness

76 hours 49 mins; May 22, 2023

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

70 hours 21 mins; May 15, 2023

#137 CEO Oura, Tom Hale: Business & Backgammon

64 hours 27 mins; May 08, 2023

#136 COO Modern Treasury, Rachel Pike: Golden Ticket

64 hours 13 mins; May 01, 2023

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

71 hours 48 mins; April 24, 2023

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

80 hours 11 mins; April 17, 2023

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

77 hours 10 mins; April 10, 2023

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

55 mins; April 03, 2023

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

49 mins; March 27, 2023

#130 Former Vice President Al Gore: Relentless

61 hours 0 mins; March 20, 2023

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

71 hours 46 mins; March 13, 2023

#128 Former COO & Corporate Officer at Stripe, Claire Hughes Johnson: Scaling People

87 hours 29 mins; March 06, 2023

#127 CEO Intuit Mailchimp, Rania Succar: Consistent Inner Equilibrium

63 hours 51 mins; February 27, 2023

#126 CRO Gem, Lesley Young: Hard Yards

70 hours 1 min; February 20, 2023

#125 CRO Starburst, Javier Molina: Reading Cues

71 hours 15 mins; February 13, 2023

#124 Founding CRO at Procore, Dennis Lyandres: Defining "Winning"

81 hours 27 mins; February 06, 2023

#123 CEO GitHub, Thomas Dohmke: Open-Source Values

71 hours 6 mins; January 30, 2023

#122 President & Board Member at Freshworks, Dennis Woodside: What If This Goes Really Well?

65 hours 13 mins; January 23, 2023

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

55 mins; January 16, 2023

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

64 hours 21 mins; January 09, 2023

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

61 hours 41 mins; January 02, 2023

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

53 mins; December 26, 2022

#117 Co-founder & COO Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn: A Better Internet

76 hours 39 mins; December 19, 2022

#116 Grit Recap: 9 Intersections of Personal and Professional

65 hours 1 min; December 12, 2022

#115 Executive Board Member at SAP, Scott Russell: Chief Optimist Officer

62 hours 9 mins; December 05, 2022

#114 CMO GE, Linda Boff: Play ‘Til the Whistle

47 mins; November 28, 2022

#113 CEO PagerDuty, Jennifer Tejada: The Re-Finder

72 hours 10 mins; November 21, 2022

#112 Former President at Tesla / CEO of DVx Ventures, Jon McNeill: First-Principles

74 hours 40 mins; November 14, 2022

#111 Founder and CEO Whoop, Will Ahmed: Unlocking Optimal Human Performance

68 hours 33 mins; November 07, 2022

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

66 hours 44 mins; October 31, 2022

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

64 hours 25 mins; October 24, 2022

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

76 hours 51 mins; October 17, 2022

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

78 hours 56 mins; October 10, 2022

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

66 hours 45 mins; October 03, 2022

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

72 hours 53 mins; September 26, 2022

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

78 hours 47 mins; September 19, 2022

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

66 hours 18 mins; September 12, 2022

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

46 mins; September 05, 2022

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

51 mins; August 29, 2022

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

66 hours 24 mins; August 22, 2022

CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind

70 hours 56 mins; August 15, 2022

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

60 hours 17 mins; August 08, 2022

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

69 hours 51 mins; August 01, 2022

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

65 hours 9 mins; July 25, 2022

Founder & CEO Freshworks, Girish Mathrubootham: Success Is In the Big Things, Happiness Is In the Small Things

73 hours 16 mins; July 18, 2022

CMO Riot Games, Jason Bunge: Change Is Inevitable, Get Used To It

62 hours 38 mins; July 11, 2022

Co-Founder & CEO Charm Industrial, Peter Reinhardt: “All That Matters Is What the Customers Are Telling You”

70 hours 19 mins; July 04, 2022

Co-Founder & CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling

62 hours 42 mins; June 27, 2022

Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO

79 hours 20 mins; June 20, 2022

Founder & CEO Flock Safety, Garrett Langley: Tech That Makes Everyone Safer

69 hours 13 mins; June 13, 2022

COO Ironclad, Leyla Seka: More Equal Is Always Better

72 hours 44 mins; June 06, 2022

Chief Freemium Business Officer at Spotify, Alex Norstrom: The Power of Setting Impossible Goals

83 hours 23 mins; May 30, 2022

#87 Founder & CEO Thrive, Arianna Huffington: Life Is About More Than Money and Power

61 hours 18 mins; May 23, 2022

CMO Airtable, Archana Agrawal: Success Is Not a Formula

63 hours 8 mins; May 16, 2022

CMO Square, Lauren Weinberg: Self-made boss

60 hours 57 mins; May 09, 2022

Co-Founder & CEO Handshake, Garrett Lord: The Billion-Dollar Question That Changed College Recruiting

52 mins; May 02, 2022

CMO Thoughtspot, Scott Holden: Tactics, Strategy, and Downhill Skiing

56 mins; April 25, 2022

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