#123: Molly Graham (Former Exec. at Facebook, Quip) on the 9 Things She Wished People Told Her About Scaling a Company

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Molly Graham knows what it takes to scale a company (@molly_g on Twitter). From Google to Facebook to Quip she’s been involved in a whole lot of growth — and a whole lot of change that comes with it. She joins DC and DG on this episode of Seeking Wisdom to share the 9 things she wishes someone told her about scaling a company. And she’s joining as a speaker at #HYPERGROWTH2018! Molly will be speaking in Boston, and you can come join us by getting your tickets ASAP at hypergrowth.drift. If you use the promo code SEEKINGWISDOM when you checkout, you’ll save $500 and pay just $199 for your ticket to the one day event with 4500 others on Tuesday 9/4. PS. We just launched the Seeking Wisdom Official Facebook Group - one place, finally, for all of us to hang out, get updates on the podcast, and share what we’re learning (plus some exclusives). Click here to join or search for the Seeking Wisdom Official group on Facebook.

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0:00.0	All right, we're back with another guest.
0:13.7	We're hot on guests these days, but I've heard a lot.
0:17.0	I've heard a lot.
0:18.0	Keith was like shaky.
0:19.0	He's like, I got, Molly said she'll come on seeking wisdom and come to drift. Yeah, so. So I told Molly, and this is Molly Graham, hi Molly. Hi, Molly. We'll do the formal intro a little bit. But I told Molly earlier today that, that Keith is the number one president of her fan club for years. He's the only member, yeah. It might be weird to meet, to actually meet the president of your fan club. Yeah.
0:21.0	Yeah. In my bullets, I have Keith's favorite speaker on the planet. So that's very, that's very important. That wasn't just me. That was the lead of my bio. Yeah, yeah. That was not just me saying it. No, no. okay so I'm gonna I'll I'll do the
0:54.8	like embarrassing thing usually which is for people when I run through their
0:57.7	bio but so you're Facebook you're a C-O at quip and then now you're the VP of
1:03.4	ops at Chan Zuckerberg was you was okay you left okay so give me get let's
1:09.5	talk I want to we have we have some stuff we're gonna go through but what is Chan's what was Chan Zuckerberg? What is Chan Zuckerberg? What is quip? What were these things? Yeah. Yeah, sure. Well most people have heard of Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. So I love Facebook and helped the former c.O Facebook found a company called quip which is is like Google Docs, but way more awesome, which was bought by Salesforce in 2016.
1:34.1	And then Chan Zuckerberg is a philanthropic organization that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, his wife, founded in 2016, to basically bring technology to social problems.
1:46.8	And did you go to Salesforce or no?
1:48.6	I did not.
1:49.3	I left one day before the acquisition closed.
1:51.1	Oh, that's interesting.
1:51.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:52.6	We needed some Salesforce stories.
1:54.3	But can you, can we talk about what you're doing at Facebook for a little bit?
1:58.9	Because I was, I was reading and it was interesting because like you had, you worked on the mobile team, but you also started to do, like, employment branding?
2:07.2	Can you talk about each of those things?
2:08.9	What happened?
2:09.4	Sure.
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