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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep. 51 – Authentic Leadership With Khan Academy COO, Ginny Lee

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

4.9224 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Leading a company requires a lot of physical and mental effort and relationship building. Ginny Lee, the COO of Khan Academy, shares her transitions from working for Intuit to Khan Academy which is a non-profit organization that provides free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. As Ginny illustrates how it is running a big company, she touches on […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to Second in Command, brought to you by COO Alliance, where top-level

0:07.3

COOs share their insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief. And now, here and now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

0:15.0

Jenny Lee joined the chief.

0:17.0

Jenny Lee joined the Con Academy in 2016 as President and Chief Operating Officer

0:27.4

after a year as CEO and residents at a private equity firm based in

0:31.1

San Francisco. Prior to that, Lee was part of

0:33.6

Intuit's leadership team for 17 years where she led the team of more than 900

0:37.7

employees. Lee learned a dual BA in Business Economics and

0:41.6

Organizational Behavior and Management from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

0:48.0

Khan Academy is a non-profit organization created to provide free

0:54.3

for anyone anywhere.

0:56.1

The organization produces micro lectures in the form of YouTube videos

0:59.9

as well as exercises and tools for educators.

1:02.7

All resources are available for free to anyone around the world.

1:05.8

And I was at a TED conference nine years ago

1:09.4

when I saw the founder of the Khan Academy, Saul, do a talk about it, and I've been enamored with the brand ever since.

1:15.6

But Ginny, I'm really excited to have you on the Second and Command Podcast.

1:18.4

Well, thank you for inviting me.

1:20.2

Well, you're welcome.

1:21.4

So how did you, first off, and I'm also enamored with your background,

1:26.4

your education, I couldn't spell Brown, let alone get accepted there. I was the dumb kid in

1:31.5

college, so the fact that you went to an Ivy League school and an

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