Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Our guest today is Asana's CEO and head of business, Anne Raimundi.

Anne first joined As on his board of directors in 2019 and is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience

leading various products and business functions in fast-growing SAS companies.

Prior to her role at Asana, she was the chief customer officer at Guru,

Senior Vice President of Operations at Zen Desk, Chief Revenue Officer at Task Rabbit, and held senior positions with Survey Monkey and eBay.

With a strong commitment to fostering innovation in the technology sector, Raimundi is also a lecturer in management at Stanford

Graduate School of Business, and she served on the board of directors for Gusto, Patreon, guru,

Sengrid, Block, and Threat Up. Anne holds a BA in economics and sociology and an MBA from

Stanford University, and you are a classic underachiever.

I'm going to invite you to introduce me to my children.

That's a crazy bio. You really got some

experience behind you. I'm not even entirely sure where to start with this. What do you think got you to where you are today?

That's such a good and big question. I would say if I trace it all the way back it's actually just a willingness to stay

curious and keep learning. I you know I started out my career as a management consultant and just discovered that I actually really like business problems, but also business and people and team challenges.

And so found my way to becoming a product manager.

And I would say I credit a lot of the rest

of my career path to that early product training of you know customer

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