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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Building a lasting legacy with Tristan Walker

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Walker and Company Founder and CEO Tristan Walker sits down with Jessi to trace his entrepreneurial journey from business school through the sale of his company to Procter and Gamble in 2018. He shares insights on building a legacy from within a large corporation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We all have somewhere we're trying to get to, which is why Chevron is aiming to responsibly meet rising energy demand by increasing our US oil and gas production.

0:08.5

So everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived.

0:11.5

That's Energy and Progress visit shebron.

0:13.6

com slash meeting demand from the news team at LinkedIn I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is

0:18.4

hello Monday our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is

0:22.1

changing us. What makes for a successful career?

0:28.1

Is it money, power, recognition? I think on some level we're all just trying to figure this out and the answer

0:36.0

changes as we grow. Today's guest started off with one goal.

0:40.3

I knew one thing. I wanted to get as wealthy as possible as quickly as possible

0:44.0

particularly given and you know where I was raised how I was raised you know

0:49.0

opportunity and wealth is something that I had sought from a young age.

0:55.0

That's Tristan Walker.

0:56.5

He's founder of Walker and Company.

0:59.2

I followed Tristan's career for more than a decade,

1:01.8

and so I can tell you that he's successful. He started a company

1:05.4

that he's sold to P&G and he's not even 40 yet. But then Tristan did something unexpected.

1:12.0

He was a darling of Silicon Valley.

1:15.0

He'd worked with companies like Twitter in And

1:18.0

And then two years ago, he turned away from it all.

1:20.0

He chose a different path.

1:22.0

Tristan's career has a lot to show us about how we

1:25.5

balance meaning and money and what it means to leave a legacy. So let's go back to 2008.

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