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Keith Yandell: belief

9 Feb 2023 Lenny's Podcast Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)

“We try. I think when I was head of a marketing, we did a much worse job. I think we're doing much better now.”

— Keith Yandell

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Speaker
Keith Yandell
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
9 Feb 2023
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…I love that. Imagine all your programs have the Dash in there somewhere. Something Dash. We try. I think when I was head of a marketing, we did a much worse job. I think we're doing much better now. Nice. And Airbnb, it was always Air Something. Okay. So, I think one of the most interesting things about you and your background, and maybe unusual things, is the number of teams that you've led over your time at DoorDash. I have a list here. So over your time at DoorDash, you've led the HR team. You've led the customer support team, led the sales team, the marketing team. Now you lead the BD and corp dev team. Initially, I think, you were chief legal officer. So here's my question. As someone that, I imagine, doesn't have a ton of expertise and experience in a lot of these areas, how are you able to credibly lead these teams? And I ask partly because as a founder, you have to learn how to lead teams and people that you don't actually know what they're doing as well as they do. And so I'm just curious what you've learned about being able to lead teams in such disparate skill sets and functions.…

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