112: Liz Wessel – Why You Should Cold E-Mail Your Heroes
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 3 April 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Episode 112: Liz Wessel – Why You Should Cold E-Mail Your Heroes
Liz Wessel is a remarkably talented leader… I found her to be extremely interesting and dynamic during this conversation on The Learning Leader Show. I also admire her guts, will, and determination to create, grow, and sustain her company. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
Liz Wessel is the CEO of WayUp. WayUp is the largest online marketplace exclusively for college students and recent grads to find employment. Their mission is to connect students with awesome opportunities. Liz and WayUp have since raised $9.1 million in funding.
Liz is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who’s had the entrepreneurial bug since birth. Initially after graduation she took on a leadership role at Google and famously told them on her first day, “Consider this my 2 years notice.” Liz stayed true to her word and exactly two years after starting at Google, she left to launch her own business.
Episode 112: Liz Wessel – Why You Should Cold E-Mail Your Heroes
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“A Learning Leader Is Positively Skeptical”
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- A positive attitude and being fearless leads to sustained excellence
- How working for Google in India helped prepare her to lead WayUp
- How she was able to raise over $9M in funding
- The decisions she has to make in regards to spending all of that money
- Why she pushes her employees to cold e-mail their heroes
- How she manages to only sleep a few hours a night
- Advice she has for millennials
- The fear of burn out? Does she have it? Why not?
- How reading auto-biographies can help you be more creative
- A learning leader is positively skeptical
“You Need To Understand What You Love AND What You Don’t Love”
Continue Learning:
- Go To: WayUp.com
- Follow Liz on Twitter: @lizwessel
- Read More About Liz: Cold E-Mail Your Idols
- To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
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Bio – Liz Wessel
Liz Wessel is the CEO of WayUp. WayUp is the largest online marketplace exclusively for college students and recent grads to find employment. Their mission is to connect students with awesome opportunities. Liz and WayUp have since raised $9.1 million in funding.
Liz is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who’s had the entrepreneurial bug since birth. Initially after graduation she took on a leadership role at Google and famously told them on her first day, “Consider this my 2 years notice.” Liz stayed true to her word and exactly two years after starting at Google, she left to launch her own business
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| 0:00.0 | One of the best pace of advice is just none of us know what we're doing. |
| 0:04.7 | Like no one except for hopefully doctors really know what they're doing. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm sure when you started this podcast you definitely were not an expert in |
| 0:11.8 | podcast and you probably just said you know what |
| 0:14.0 | maybe I love doing it I love meeting interesting people I think I have a good voice for it so I'm |
| 0:18.6 | gonna just do it and at the end of the day I had no idea what we were what I was doing when I started this business I just |
| 0:25.1 | knew I wanted to solve a problem and I thought I had a unique solution to it and I thought I had |
| 0:28.7 | a great founder, co-founder. |
| 0:30.8 | And so we did it and I just can't urge people enough to just take leaves and stop |
| 0:36.6 | questioning themselves. Our leaders born or are they made. Our host Ryan Hawk |
| 0:41.7 | believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders. |
| 0:50.0 | Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. |
| 0:53.2 | You're listening to the Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk. |
| 0:56.4 | Hey guys, remember episode number 97 with Alejandro Chaiin. |
| 1:08.2 | He is the CEO of Ma and Baal. |
| 1:11.0 | We both promise to continue our dialogue as we both progressed on our |
| 1:15.8 | journeys and we certainly have just as I have with the great people at Misenin |
| 1:20.4 | Maine and Alejandro and his company have decided to sponsor the Learning Leader |
| 1:25.1 | Show. |
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| 1:28.0 | I told the story on that episode of why I absolutely love their ridiculously comfortable handcrafted premium jeans. |
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