Ep. 290 – Near COO, Gladys Kong

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Gladys Kong, Chief Operating Officer at Near. Previously, she was CEO of UberMedia, which was acquired by Near in 2021. Gladys oversees Near’s privacy initiatives and privacy policy. At UberMedia, she was responsible for assembling a best-in-class data science team and pivoting it from a social media app developer to a […]

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Herald, the founder of the Second Command Podcast.
0:03.0	Really quick, before we jump into today's episode,
0:05.0	you need to know about two important ways that we can help you and your company grow.
0:09.0	Number one, check out the COO Alliance.
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0:13.4	Presidents, BP Ops, or whoever is your company's second in command to the
0:17.2	CEO. The C.O. Alliance is the world's leading community for the
0:21.1	second in command command and it gives
0:22.8	COOs the tools and connections to grow themselves and the company.
0:27.2	Head over to C.O.Aliance.com to learn more about our members and the
0:30.8	results, the program, and our 10X guarantee. If you qualify for membership,
0:35.5	you can set up a complimentary call with our team to discuss if it's right for you. I'll tell you
0:40.0	about number two in a bit, but first, let's start this week's episode. My role is not to get
0:45.2	everything done perfectly. My role is to actually help everybody do their job better and so if I
0:50.9	can focus on just enabling every team to function to their best and be there to assist them, put in processes that would help them communicate the necessary information to help them, then I'm playing my role correctly.
1:04.5	If I dive too deep into the weeds or I tell them, hey, he's how you do it, I think I can only be successful in certain
1:10.1	areas, but not globally across the organization.
1:13.4	Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast,
1:21.8	produced by the COO Alliance and brought to you by its founder, Cameron
1:26.2	Herald.
1:27.2	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.
1:36.6	And now here's your host, Cameron Herald. Introducing Gladys Kong,
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