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Noah Kagan Presents

How Billion Dollar Tech Companies Operate (w/ Gokul Rajaram)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Gokul Rajaram has worked as an executive at some of the biggest tech companies: Google, Facebook, Square, etc.

He is currently the Caviar Lead at Doordash and advises different tech startups in his free time.

I came across Gokul on Twitter. You can check him out @gokulr.

He also has INSANE articles on Medium about how to run a company. My favorite one is "The weekly CEO e-mail". I’ve copied that at AppSumo, and I’ve found it super amazing!

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0:00.0

Every goal should have a check metric along with it, which puts guard rails on that goal and make sure it doesn't go off the rails.

0:10.0

What is up you sexy bastards? It is your boy fishing rod, aka

0:13.0

Rabah can lose, aka no-kegan, that's me!

0:15.4

In today's episode I talk to my buddy and really impressive guy

0:18.1

Goku Roger Ram. This guy is impressive now.

0:20.8

He has worked on the executive team of some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

0:25.0

Google, Facebook, Square and now he is currently Caviar lead at DoorDash.

0:30.0

At one point he also started his own company, Chilabs, which got acquired by Facebook.

0:34.0

I came across Gokul on Twitter. You can check him out at Go Cool R, that's G-O-K-U-L-R.

0:39.0

He also has insane articles on medium about how to run a company.

0:42.0

There's specifically one called a weekly CEO. insane articles on medium about how to run a company.

0:42.6

There's specifically one called a weekly CEO email.

0:45.7

Now I have copied that for AppSumo and I have found it super amazing and I think the team really loves it.

0:51.2

If you've ever wanted would learn about how the biggest

0:52.8

tech companies operate or how to join them, you're going to love this episode.

0:56.0

In this conversation you'll take away three gigantic things. Number one, the

0:58.9

different leadership styles of Larry Page, Zuckerberg, and Dorsey. Two, strategies to help companies operate better.

1:04.8

Three, how to transform a product company

1:06.5

into a platform company.

1:08.2

Enjoy those three things, plus a bunch more air nuggets

1:10.3

along the way.

1:11.4

Before we dive in the show,

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