a16z Podcast: How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
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🗓️ 26 March 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe we should just start with introductions and to get a sense for board experience, etc. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Scott Weiss. I'm a general partner here at A16 , but prior to that I was the founder and CEO of a company called Ironport. |
| 0:12.0 | And I was very specific and directed about building that board, which I'll go into in a little while. |
| 0:18.0 | And then now I'm on the board of 10 companies here. So maybe we can |
| 0:21.9 | just kind of do really quickly. Then I can pose a few questions. Sure. So I'm Dan Warman-Huven. |
| 0:28.0 | For 15 years or so, I was a CEO of NetApp and then continued on as executive chairman for a while. |
| 0:33.6 | In terms of non-Net App boards, I've probably been on about 10 or 12 roughly over the years, |
| 0:39.3 | most of whom have been private, like, stage, you know, Series C, ready to go public. |
| 0:45.9 | I did that with Redback, Aruba, Palo Alto Networks, and a variety of others. |
| 0:51.5 | And right now I think I'm on five. |
| 0:55.3 | So I'm Bill Krauss. |
| 0:56.8 | I hang out here occasionally. |
| 0:58.8 | I was a chairman and CEO of 3Com. |
| 1:02.5 | Since that time, I've been on a lot of boards. |
| 1:04.8 | I had to do a research project for the CIA. |
| 1:07.3 | I've been on 15 public boards from Adobe to Sybase. |
| 1:10.7 | I've been on about 12 or 13 |
| 1:13.4 | private boards, most of whom have long since gone. I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:18.3 | Cool. Aaron Levy, CEO and co-founder of Box. I've only been on one board for about 10 years now, |
| 1:26.5 | and it was almost a public board. And then things |
| 1:30.2 | got kind of weird, but we expected to be a public board, so I will have that experience, |
| 1:34.8 | and I will come tell you how it goes. But, you know, have fun stories and lots of great lessons |
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