Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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23 published records
01 / recommendation
“" And then I read another book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz was like, "Oh my God, there are even more answers.”
02 / recommendation
“The top goal piece, I'm reading a book called Make Time right now and that's a big part of it.”
03 / belief
“Awesome. And anger and fear, I think there's different pieces of advice for if you feel angry versus fear.”
04 / belief
“Was that too much? But then after about two to three months, I realized, no, that actually was the right thing because my number two was able to absorb the things that he was doing and here's the crazy part, with fewer people in the organization, things work better.”
05 / belief
“Fascinating. That's actually a good segue to this last topic I wanted to touch on, which something that I think you have a lot of thoughts on is building new products within a larger company and innovating inside of a larger kind of scaled company, and especially the challenges around that.”
06 / evaluation
“If your personality is like mine, yes, have someone there. It can be remote, it can be in person, it doesn't matter.”
07 / belief
“Every time we send an invite, there's a Google meet button there. I think I cracked it finally.”
08 / uncertainty
“I haven't been following it directly, so I don't know how he's implementing the layoffs or how much he's doing.”
09 / commitment
“I want people to feel heard. I will listen and it'll go great. But you have some very tactical advice on how to actually make people feel heard.”
10 / commitment
“I'm listening to this advice and I'm like, yes, I will do this next time I'm talking to someone.”
11 / evaluation
“I have to say, he's a machine, he's an operating machine and there's zero time between ah, this is the right thing to do and doing it.”
12 / evaluation
“Think about if that one part is gone, everything slows down, and in theory it is better, but then all these other factors end up making it worse.”
13 / belief
“I think people will say, and they'll fight for equity and money, but in the end, that's not what actually motivates them. Because I've seen this work in companies where they don't have big equity, but they have autonomy, they have ownership, not equity ownership, ownership over decision making, ownership over creation.”
14 / evaluation
“The way I learned about you is back in the day I read this book called The Great CEO Within, which I have right here, and I was like, holy moly, this is the most tactical, practical, useful book I've seen for leaders.”
15 / prediction
“Then now in May, June of this year, we had this huge reset of valuations where growth tech stocks dropped by 50 to 90% value and all of a sudden, which we're still in and we don't know how long this can last, it's all based on interest rates so it's likely that growth stocks will be at these valuations until interest rates come back down again, which could be two to three years.”
16 / recommendation
“One way to make people feel heard is, let's assume you're talking to them because there's another way, there's an even more surface way is verbal.”
17 / preference
“Ryan obviously started Product Hunt and then he sold the company to AngelList, so he was part of AngelList when I went there because I was coaching Naval.”
18 / commitment
“" Then I realized I needed an organization to test my most radical ideas, and also all of my CEOs had been asking me to create software because I have a methodology and it's step one, step two, step three, and you do it in one-on-ones and then a methodology for a team meeting and then a methodology for feedback and then a methodology for every different motion in the company.”
19 / prediction
“I think for almost all managers that aren't good at letting go, it's because A, they've never done it, or B, they've done it badly.”
20 / preference
“When that happens, of course you go into massive fear and the brain shuts down, so I want to be there and help them through that process and actively help them find their dream job because there is a place that absolutely needs them.”
21 / evaluation
“That's the same thing here in letting someone go. But if you let them go kindly and humanely, the key is, in my opinion, you become their agent, like Michael Ovitz, the CAA agent.”
22 / preference
“All that was super fun, but I realized I missed my peers and I wanted to get back into the tech world, but I didn't want to start a company because a company is a lot of work and the end result is you make a lot of money, but I didn't need money.”
23 / recommendation
“There's an app I use called Centered, that app that I'm an investor in, but I use it all the time and they have this buddy feature actually where you can be paired with a buddy in real time.”