291: Andy Rachleff - What Do You Uniquely Offer That People Desperately Want?
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Episode #291: Andy Rachleff (CEO Wealthfront) - What Do You Uniquely Offer That People Desperately Want?
Andy Rachleff is a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Wealthfront. Rachleff co-founded Benchmark Capital in 1995 and was a general partner until 2004.
Some notes... (More found on www.LearningLeader.com)
- Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
- Intellectual curiosity -- Pass this along to kids at the dinner table
- Ask questions
- "Bright people think other smart people ask questions."
- The leader creates the culture
- "People model the behavior of the leader."
- "To be a great teacher, you have to synthesize something into small statements. This helps you be a better leader."
- Magic 8 Ball statements
- "A's hire A's. B's hire C's."
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| 0:49.2 | individual contributor but you have to become superb at that. If you choose the management route, I think first and |
| 0:56.4 | foremost you have to realize that people want to be led, they don't want to be managed. |
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| 2:10.3 | Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk. Thanks so much for being here. |
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