#99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

For over a decade, Kris Cordle worked directly with the CEOs at Yahoo, Twitter, and Slack. She joined Twitter and Slack early and helped them scale into public companies. Most recently she was Chief of Staff at Slack but left to launch Devenu Collaborations, helping rapid-growth CEOs scale. Kris and Shane discuss life in a religious cult, automatic rules for success, lessons in decision making and scaling, why it's hard for founders to scale, the common patterns to success, and much more. It's time to Listen and Learn.

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0:00.0	You know, if you're curious about something, explore it, especially in a lot of ways of
0:03.9	it's unrelated to what you're doing.
0:06.1	It'll free your mind up in so many ways.
0:08.0	You'll find parallels and relieve your brain from the same problem that you've just been
0:12.7	trying to nail on.
0:13.8	Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host Shane Parish. This podcast and our website
0:34.0	FS.blog helps sharpen your mind by mastering the best of what other people have already figured
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0:48.5	content, you can join us at FS.blog slash podcast. Check out the show notes for a link.
0:54.9	Today I'm talking with Chris Cortle, most recently the Chief of Staff at Slack. Chris has
1:00.2	spent the past 12 years working directly with some of the best CEOs during her time at
1:04.5	Yahoo Twitter and Slack. She joined Slack in Twitter when they were small and helped them
1:08.9	scale into public companies. Now she works at Devonee Collaborations, a firm dedicated
1:13.5	to helping rapid growth CEO scale. We're going to talk all about her upbringing in a religious
1:18.9	cult and how that shaped her world, automatic rules for success, lessons of her decision-making
1:24.0	and scaling, why it's hard for founders to scale in particular, the common patterns
1:28.4	to success, and so much more. You'll walk away from this episode with a new perspective
1:33.3	on leadership and practical tools that you can implement today with your team. It's
1:38.2	time to listen and learn.
1:40.0	The Knowledge Project is sponsored by Metal Lab. For a decade, Metal Lab has helped some
1:49.4	of the world's top companies and entrepreneurs build products that millions of people use
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