BONUS Episode - A Monster Bonus
Underserved
Andrew Gelina
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Episode #075’s guest Jeff Taylor was generous with his time, spending over two hours with me in the studio. We captured so much good material that we needed a bonus episode to squeeze it all in. In this bonus episode we talk about life after Monster, why you should run the meetings you attend, and setting the world record for water skiing behind a blimp.
Links:
Blimp record: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/03/23/executive-sets-blimp-skiing-record/
RoverTrophy: https://www.rovertrophy.com/
Burning Man: https://burningman.org/
Root Society at Burning Man https://www.instagram.com/rootsociety2019/?utm_source=ig_embed&hl=en
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to a special bonus edition of Underserved. |
| 0:05.0 | In episode 75 we interviewed Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com and 14 other companies |
| 0:10.8 | including most recently, RoverTrophy.com. |
| 0:14.2 | Jeff was generous with his time and spent a couple hours with me in the studio. |
| 0:17.8 | The second half of his interview is in this bonus podcast. |
| 0:20.9 | If you missed the first half of the interview, be sure to check out episode 75 of Underserved, |
| 0:25.6 | a Monster idea. |
| 0:27.1 | Let's continue with Jeff. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. |
| 0:37.0 | Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights and their lessons learned. |
| 0:43.1 | And now your host Andrew Jalina. |
| 0:47.7 | I first got to Monster in July 15, 1999, is when you guys were now in the mill, you know, |
| 0:57.2 | the sales people were there and you hadn't quite grown all the way out the carpet to the |
| 1:01.5 | back wall where Brian Ferry was the CTO, but you could just feel the energy like the |
| 1:07.3 | people are like on the phones closing deals left and right. |
| 1:10.8 | There was a palpable excitement and buzz there like every day. |
| 1:16.8 | You know, we we moved from my little 135 native location where my server was in a closet |
| 1:23.3 | into a bowling alley space above a Chinese food restaurant and downtown framing him. |
| 1:27.4 | I grew to about 90 or maybe 100 employees in that space. |
| 1:31.4 | Then we started looking for a bigger space, gotten a Miller Newton that worked with us that |
| 1:36.0 | had come from the parent company. |
| 1:37.6 | It was very good at some of this operational stuff found this space in the mill. |
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