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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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What Gokul said.
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01 / preference
And don't just like basically just write things. That's why I think writing is so powerful because it shows the world.
“And don't just like basically just write things. That's why I think writing is so powerful because it shows the world.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / preference
i started angel investing in 2007 15 years ago and like many people i started because my friends and colleagues were leaving to start companies this is when i was at google and they were leaving to start companies so literally without doing much i just wanted to support them because i'd worked with them and so i just put a small check into the companies and some failed some did really well but ultimately i realized that for me investing is all about supporting people much more so than companies themselves.
“i started angel investing in 2007 15 years ago and like many people i started because my friends and colleagues were leaving to start companies this is when i was at google and they were leaving to start companies so literally without doing much i just wanted to support them because i'd worked with them and so i just put a small check into the companies and some failed some did really well but ultimately i realized that for me investing is all about supporting people much more so than companies themselves.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / preference
i enjoy it i think the thing is i enjoy it because i have been a founder myself not a very successful one so one of the things i love hearing i always start to tell me your founding story and every founder likes to tell the financing and that's where i listen closely for authenticity to understand how they met each other the two founders hopefully multiple founders how they knew each other and how they came up with this idea that they're going after versus and what problem they're tackling and so A, I have a standard set of questions I ask so that way I can spend my time not thinking of questions to ask, but just listening and just learning.
“i enjoy it i think the thing is i enjoy it because i have been a founder myself not a very successful one so one of the things i love hearing i always start to tell me your founding story and every founder likes to tell the financing and that's where i listen closely for authenticity to understand how they met each other the two founders hopefully multiple founders how they knew each other and how they came up with this idea that they're going after versus and what problem they're tackling and so A, I have a standard set of questions I ask so that way I can spend my time not thinking of questions to ask, but just listening and just learning.”
- Speaker
- Gokul Rajaram
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast