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Wes Kao: uncertainty

28 Aug 2022 Lenny's Podcast Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)

“Yeah, I don't know about people disliking him. He definitely has spiky points of view, which I think are amazing.”

— Wes Kao

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Wes Kao
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Recorded
28 Aug 2022
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Oh man. Okay. Amazing. One last quick question. You also worked with Scott Galloway, who's a very polarizing figure on Twitter at least, and you helped him create his courses. Maybe just one quick question on him, what's he like and why do people dislike him so much on Twitter? Yeah, I don't know about people disliking him. He definitely has spiky points of view, which I think are amazing. Yeah. So Section4, Scott Galloway's company was one of the first clients that I worked with after leaving altMBA, and I didn't work too closely with Scott. I worked really closely with his CEO, Greg Shove and their exec team to design the sprint that's now their go-to course format. But yeah, I didn't work too closely with him directly. Okay, cool. We won't get too deep there. Okay, so what I want to do with most of the time that we have together is to go into five big ideas. You could call it the five big ideas from Wes Kao, concepts that you've shared in other places that you've touched on your writing and tweeting and things like that have struck and have stuck with me and I suspect many other people, and just go deeper on these ideas. Does that sound good?…

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