Execs
On Deck, Erik Torenberg
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04/12/22 • 58 min
Aarthi Ramamurthy is Head of International at Clubhouse and the co-host of the popular Good Times Show.
Prior to working at Clubhouse, Aarthi had roles at Microsoft, Netflix, Facebook, and started a YC backed company.
She draws on her deep tech experience and international background to share how International Growth is really just normal growth, but with different lenses of marketing and branding. She also shares thoughts on the value of internal hackathons, brownbags, and how to hire for product teams.
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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Guest: @aarthir
Brought to you by: @beondeck
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Tyler Cowen
Execs
06/07/22 • 51 min
Tyler Cowen is an economist, professor, best-selling author, and co-creator of the blog "Marginal Revolution." His latest book, Talent, is available now.
In this episode, Tyler talks about how to identify and cultivate talent. We discuss frameworks for assessing stamina, identifying late bloomers, and how to organize the world’s ambition.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Featuring guest: @tylercowen
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
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02/01/22 • 52 min
Today’s guest is Ben Braverman. Ben is currently Chief Customer Officer at Flexport after 6 years of being their Chief Revenue Officer during Flexport’s hypergrowth period.
In this episode, we discussed how to build a good sales machine from the ground up. Ben also shares his thoughts on all things revenue - from marketing to BD to forming early SDR teams.
On Deck and Flexport are co-building the future of logistics - learn more about our joint accelerator at beondeck.com/x/flexport.
Adam Gelman, On Deck’s SVP of Revenue, joined Erik in this episode as a guest co-host. We hope you enjoy.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Guest: @braveben
Guest co-host: @Adam_Gelman
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
03/08/22 • 44 min
Richard Ni is the current Head of People at Scale AI after being the first recruiting hire at Cruise Automation, where he helped bring the team from 10 to 700 in three years.
Prior to leading people teams, Richard was a Software Engineer at Venmo and a Computer Science major at MIT. We discuss the unique perspective that his technical background gives him in recruiting, how to solicit genuine feedback from employees, and build a leveling system.
Quick note: This episode was recorded in December 2021 - keep that in mind as you're listening to Richard's thoughts on the state of the market.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
03/29/22 • 55 min
Emil Michael was the Chief Business Officer at Uber during their hyperscale period from 2013 - 2017.
In this episode, Emil shares crucial lessons from Uber. He details how and why to develop an ambitious blitzscaling mentality from day one, imparts specific tactics learned from launching Uber in China, and advises patience when it comes to hiring Execs.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
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Guest: @emilmichael
Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
04/05/22 • 40 min
(A note that this episode was recorded before Russia's invasion of Ukraine).
Babak Siavoshy is Vice President & General Counsel at Anduril Industries. His legal background combined with his deep operating experience in tech is a rare & precious combination.
In this episode, we discuss how to build legal teams from scratch, how to grow data protection teams, and much more at the intersection of legal and ops.
Babak’s team at Anduril is bringing a new era of tech to the military - check them out at anduril.com
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
Check out the On Deck job board
Share your thoughts with us on Twitter:
Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
Anand Chandrasekaran is a full-time angel & advisor with extensive executive experience at some of the biggest names in tech. Prior to being EVP to Five9, Anand worked at Facebook, Yahoo, and started several of his own companies.
He was most recently EVP at Five9 after three years as director of Facebook’s Messenger platform and five years at Yahoo. He has extensive founding, advisory and C-Suite experience with both American and Indian companies.
In this episode, Anand shares incredible frameworks for product leadership. You can read his thoughts in more detail @ anandc on Twitter.
Rishi Tripathy, group product lead at On Deck, joined Erik in this episode as a guest co-host. We hope you enjoy.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
Check out the On Deck job board
Share your thoughts with us on Twitter:
Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Guest: @anandc
Guest co-host: @rishi_tripathy_
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
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04/26/22 • 50 min
Morgan Brown is Vice President of Growth at Shopify. Prior to working at Shopify, he was Director of Product Management at Facebook and Chief Operating Officer of Inman News.
In today’s episode, Morgan walks through different phases of his career. He emphasizes how to be comfortable with change, what he learned from Facebook’s product development framework, and how to nail performance marketing. He even gave us some advice on how to launch this podcast.
Morgan’s intelligence is rivaled only by his empathy. We’re grateful to have had the chance to chat with him. Adam Gelman, On Deck’s SVP of Revenue, joined me in this episode as a guest co-host. We hope you enjoy.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
Check out the On Deck job board
Share your thoughts with us on Twitter:
Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Featuring guest: @morganb
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
01/25/22 • 52 min
Gina Gotthilf spent five years at Duolingo and helped the company grow from 3 million to 300 million users. She is the kind of VP of Marketing that isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty.
Gina is an AB testing vet, and shared her best frameworks and lessons for how to AB test well. She also shares her PR & Influencer Strategy tips, as well as her thoughts on how to hire your first marketing person.
She is now cofounder of Latitud, which supports early-stage entrepreneurs in Latin America solving some of the biggest problems in emerging markets across the globe.
Her passion for her job and life are evident throughout this episode. We hope you enjoy.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
Check out the On Deck job board
Share your thoughts with us on Twitter:
Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Guest: @ginag
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
Explore links from the episode:
Gina's Ted Talk
The Tenets of A/B Testing from Duolingo's Master Growth Hacker
Gina's interview on How Things Grow
02/15/22 • 55 min
Sarah Smith is currently a partner at Bain Capital Ventures after an early career of building elite HR teams for huge tech players, including Facebook and Quora, where she helped scale Quora from 40 to 160 people in 3 years.
In this episode, we discussed hiring that first crucial people person, how to train first time management, how to nail goal setting, and how to improve vesting schedules.
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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. To engage further:
Check out the On Deck job board
Share your thoughts with us on Twitter:
Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Guest: @sasmith4
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck
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How many episodes does Execs have?
Execs currently has 29 episodes available.
What topics does Execs cover?
The podcast is about Management, Founder, Cmo, Entrepreneurship, Cto, Podcasts, Technology, Business and Cfo.
What is the most popular episode on Execs?
The episode title 'Aarthi Ramamurthy (Head of International at Clubhouse, ex Product Director at Facebook)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Execs?
The average episode length on Execs is 48 minutes.
How often are episodes of Execs released?
Episodes of Execs are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of Execs?
The first episode of Execs was released on Jan 20, 2022.
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