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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Sanjit Biswas) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: How do you make space for new ideas? What do you think about team discipline to create more long term business sustainability? What can other leaders learn from the "big eyes and big ears" approach to meeting with customers? ——— GO DEEPER Scale up your leadership skills in 2 minutes a day with the How Leaders Lead app — ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download today in the App Store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get coaching from David by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠signing up to receive his Weekly Leadership Plan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. It builds on each podcast episode by offering actionable steps you can take each week to incorporate the learnings from the episode into your leadership style. It only takes about 5 minutes and is a great way to start off your week! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the How Leaders Lead podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to ensure you never miss an episode!

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0:00.0

Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan here with David Novak to bring you another

0:08.8

edition of three more questions. David, the guy that we're talking about today has built not one,

0:14.3

but two billion dollar businesses from the ground up. It's Sanjit Biswas, the co-founder and CEO of Sam Sera.

0:23.3

And David, I know you love this conversation.

0:25.8

Oh, absolutely.

0:26.5

I think he's an amazing leader.

0:28.0

But before we get into it, I have to tell everybody that you're recording live from

0:32.8

Brooklyn, New York.

0:34.0

You know, you're getting out of that Nashville zone and into the New York area. I hope

0:38.3

you're having a great summer vacation, cool up. Well, I'm not on vacation, David. Come on. Well, I know. I know. You're working out here in Brooklyn. Yeah, I know. You're working virtually. Good for you. I'm proud of you. Okay. So anyway, you know, yeah, I love the conversation with Sanjit. He's an amazing leader.

0:53.9

He's built $2 billion businesses, as you said.

0:56.6

And, you know, yeah, I love the conversation with Sanjit. He's an amazing leader. He's built two billion

0:54.8

dollar businesses, as you said. And, you know, I think for anyone that wants to get insights on how

1:01.3

leaders lead in entrepreneurial environments and how they start things up from scratch and scale it,

1:08.1

this is a great podcast. And, you know, I walked away with a great amount of

1:12.8

respect for Sanjit and how he leads after having our conversation. Well, he's brilliant. And

1:18.5

they're just, you know, he's an engineer by trade. But the way that he simplifies these

1:22.7

complex ideas so that everybody can understand him and so that he can lead really well,

1:27.2

it's just so

1:27.8

impressive. And one thing I would say about Sanjit that's very interesting, he's definitely an

1:32.4

engineer. Now, engineers are not typically seen as salespeople. Okay. Well, let me tell you something.

1:38.2

This guy's a salesperson. He's customer focused. He understands his customers. And I think that's the

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