Scaling

Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor, shares some insights from her CEO “playbook” on how to be a successful leader at a time where expectations are…

David Weiden speaks with Todd McKinnon, Co-founder and CEO of Okta, on building a successful, public enterprise company. Todd discusses hiring, who you should have…

Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe, shares unique insights on becoming a successful product leader.

Margaret Heffernan, author and business leader, sits down with Samir Kaul to discuss this phenomenon of avoiding uncomfortable truths and how to address them.

Dave Girouard, Founder and CEO of Upstart, sits down with David Weiden to share insights while riding the startup roller coaster to success.  

Shellye Archambeau has encountered a lot of obstacles in life, but her ability to navigate around them has proved almost superhuman. Archambeau talks about deciding…

When Dheeraj Pandey co-founded the cloud computing company Nutanix in 2009, the economy was shaky. Housing was turbulent. And interest rates had moved dramatically. Sound…

Kim Scott admits she has made some huge mistakes as a boss – mistakes that made her kind of obsessed with becoming a better manager.…

Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., aren’t always two peas in a pod. The “move fast, break things” approach may not square with a cautious-at-all-costs outlook.…

Self-driving seemed like a can’t-miss technology. Smart people were working on it. Money was poured into it. So why, decades later, aren’t you answering your…

When Sarah Friar quit as the CFO of Square, CEO Jack Dorsey wasn’t thrilled. But she felt compelled to take the leap. Friar explains why…

Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, in conversation with David Weiden on creating culture at work and where we sometimes go wrong.

Kim Scott, Co-Founder of Radical Candor & Just Work, shares insights on company culture and how to avoid biases in recruiting, hiring and mentoring.

Mark Suster, Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures, discusses how entrepreneurs can manage their boards. Among other things, he addresses their role in big picture decisions,…

Samir Kaul interviews Emily Drabant Conley, Vice President of Business Development at 23andMe, on OKRs and how to use them to gain alignment, focus and…

Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab, discusses the power of distributed teams and remote work. To work more asynchronously without losing effectiveness, Sid addresses…

David Weiden sits down with Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock Partners to discuss blitzscaling, the notion of prioritizing speed over efficiency…

Former KV Operating Partner Dan Levin hosts a workshop on how to build a team of successful, highly functional executive staff.

Claire Hughes Johnson, Stripe COO, on how to improve staff meetings by addressing three factors: unclear decisions, insufficient conflict and lack of listening.

Kim Scott, Author of Radical Candor, shares with leaders how to hit the sweet spot between obnoxiously aggressive or ruinously empathetic feedback.

Samir Kaul sits with Jeff Weiner, CEO of Linkedin, to share leadership lessons and the importance of shared objectives and trust amongst teammates.

Stripe CEO, Patrick Collison, talks with Keith Rabois about culture and recruiting. Hear why Stripe tries to hire people who are intrinsically happy, why they’re…

In this talk, Alex Schultz, vice president of growth at Facebook explains the basics of how to gain sustainable traction. Hear stories from Facebook’s early…

Yelp COO Geoff Donaker, explains how a startup CEO should approach the tricky decision of whether or not to hire a COO and when. Geoff…

In this video, hear directly from Zenefits founder/CEO, Parker Conrad, as he talks about the company’s hyper growth, the culture that enables urgency and action…

Overview  The goal of if/then scenario planning is to better understand how you can manage your company’s spend and ensure capital efficiency in order to…

Understand and quantify your major risks and know what you have to prove to get your product to market.  General approach   Quantify the level…

The goal of Team 360 reviews is to provide CEOs with valuable developmental and evaluative feedback from key stakeholders.  WhoCEOs and their senior team WhatHealth…

Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down with Vinod Khosla to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was, why computers…

In this video, Vinod Khosla discusses how to build a billion dollar company, even with zero billion in revenue.

This post also appears on TechCrunch. Most VCs pitch their venture firms as value added to a company’s entrepreneurial founders. Personally, I think leading VC…

This post also appears on TechCrunch.  Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part guest column written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder…

This post also appears on TechCrunch. Editor’s note: This is Part I of a two-part guest column written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla,…

Sometimes it doesn’t work out… There are various reasons why you may find yourself in a situation where you have decided to terminate an employee’s…

Why do Performance Reviews? Most managers complain about having to do performance reviews – so why do them? Performance reviews are not required by law.…

In this video, hear from Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and co-founder and CEO of Square, as he discusses what he’s learned from building both…

In this video, hear from Vinod Khosla as he provides his perspective on entrepreneurial ventures, both as a founder and investor.

In this video, hear from KV investment partner, Shirish Sathaye, about how to extract the most value out of a board and how to empower…

In this video, hear from Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, as he discusses the secrets to building a successful company, including mission and culture,…

In this video, hear Vinod Khosla as he discusses gene pool engineering, cycle times and risk.