book / recommends
Playing to Win
“Playing to Win, How Strategy Really Works. It's a book called Playing to Win and the subtitle is How Strategy Really Works. Very good book.”
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Gokul Rajaram
Published podcast speaker
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- 15
- Episodes
- 1
- Shows
- 1
- Named items
- 1
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What Gokul said.
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01 / belief
I think Zoom makes it harder, but it's very important to understand what else is going on at the company.
“I think Zoom makes it harder, but it's very important to understand what else is going on at the company.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / belief
I think unless you know the founders very, very, very well, joining a very early-stage, early-stage company is, especially now for the next one or two years, it's going to be a brutal market out there.
“I think unless you know the founders very, very, very well, joining a very early-stage, early-stage company is, especially now for the next one or two years, it's going to be a brutal market out there.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / belief
I think the best founders early on trust their engineering teams and product development teams to solve problems and more clearly present the problem to them and help them.
“I think the best founders early on trust their engineering teams and product development teams to solve problems and more clearly present the problem to them and help them.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / belief
I'm very nervous about because I think no one person has all the skills needed to start a company.
“I'm very nervous about because I think no one person has all the skills needed to start a company.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / belief
I think if you are interested in crypto, Coinbase has such a diverse set of things that they work on that it is literally you can work on almost any part of crypto from NFTs to wallets to custody to infrastructure.
“I think if you are interested in crypto, Coinbase has such a diverse set of things that they work on that it is literally you can work on almost any part of crypto from NFTs to wallets to custody to infrastructure.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
06 / belief
What value are they adding? And I think just number one thing you have to do is you have to, just because you hired a PM doesn't, you can't abdicate that responsibility of understanding how the team is doing.
“What value are they adding? And I think just number one thing you have to do is you have to, just because you hired a PM doesn't, you can't abdicate that responsibility of understanding how the team is doing.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast