I'm excited to announce the launch of season 9 of Master's of Scale.

It's coming soon and it's packed full of epic scale stories and important lessons for every entrepreneur and scale leader.

Keep your eyes out every week for new episodes with iconic scalers.

Sacha Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.

I remember where one board member asked me, do you really want to be a CEO?

So stepping into those shoes, I felt like, oh, I just can't be like, okay, here's the third guy who just shows up.

It needs a full reset.

And I felt the reset meant I needed to make both that sense of purpose, mission and culture, first class, and my own.

For most of the 90s, we were still in the basement of building out that enterprise credibility.

I remember distinctly going to New York City, visiting all the bags in particular Goldman Sachs.

And they made me wait in the waiting room, I was saying, who is this guy from Microsoft wanting to talk to us about servers?

They thought of us as some sort of toy PC maker.

I distinctly remember my first set of conversations with you.

You were clear, you love your enjoying building LinkedIn and you're no interest in any conversation about acquisition.

Robert Reffkin, founder and CEO of Compass.

All my dreams were wrapped up in what I had thought at that time was enough to support my family forever.

And I lost it all and actually owed the bank's money. I was shaking.

A core part of my belief around entrepreneurship is believing that you can change your station in life, that you can create the future you want for yourself and for others.

And doing what it takes to get there.

My co-founder comes to me and says everyone wants me to leave.

They don't think I have the vision to continue the path. I say I think maybe they're right.

What shocked me is how many external stakeholders said, oh, they're never going to be able to do it.

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