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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Amazon’s Aicha Evans on opting in to startups

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox - the self-driving car startup recently acquired by Amazon - shares advice on thinking tactically when choosing a startup to work for.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:11.0

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0:18.8

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0:26.2

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0:38.0

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday. Our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

0:42.0

Start-up life can be real. and how that work is changing us.

0:46.0

Start up life can be really exciting. At LinkedIn, we've just come out with our annual list of the startups people want to work at most.

0:51.0

I've been very involved with this project. These are companies like

0:54.7

Door Dash and Brooke Linen that are on fire. Join one and your whole career may get a great push

1:01.2

forward. But of course, startups are risky.

1:04.0

Most never make this list.

1:06.0

Many don't make it at all.

1:08.0

Joining one can be a gamble.

1:10.0

You have to be smart about it,

1:12.0

to pick the right company and to join at the right time.

1:15.0

So how do you do this?

1:17.0

Today's guest is Aisha Evans.

1:19.0

She runs the self-driving startup Zooks.

1:22.0

It was on our list last year and it didn't qualify this

1:25.1

year because it got bought by Amazon last summer. Aisha chose to join an

1:30.2

interesting company at an interesting time.

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