How One Man Went From Fired to CEO of Campbell's Soup
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Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
For today’s episode I sit down with the former CEO of the Campbell Soup Company Douglas Conant. He shares an incredible story from his new book ‘The Blueprint’ of how being fired from his job of 9 years led to him becoming the CEO of Campbell's. Make sure to grab a copy. Hit me up and leave a review to let me know what you thought!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast, before we get into a podcast, I want to say hey podcast, I mean all of you who are listening. |
| 0:04.8 | So first of all, thank you for listening. |
| 0:06.4 | Second of all, two little things for you to know about before we get into today's podcast. |
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| 0:57.8 | What's up podcast for today's episode? |
| 1:00.0 | Gays is down on the former CEO of the Campbell soup company Douglas Conant. |
| 1:03.8 | He shares an incredible story from his new book, The Blueprint of how being fired from his job of nine years, |
| 1:08.9 | let him to be coming to CEO of Campbell's. |
| 1:11.0 | So make sure to hit him up and leave a review to let us know what you thought and I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:17.4 | Hey everybody, really excited about today's podcast, excited about the book, but more excited about the gentleman that's sitting in front of me. |
| 1:25.2 | Doug is an iconic, I like using that, iconic business man and CEO in the corporate world and was at the helm of one of VaynerMedia's earliest clients, Campbell's, |
| 1:36.2 | and an avid tennis fan, which is one of the first things I think about with him. |
| 1:41.2 | But somebody I've stayed in touch with over the last decade who have a lot of respect for and when him and his team reached out and said, |
| 1:48.2 | hey, we've got a new book out, we'd love to be on the podcast, I couldn't have been more excited for this moment. |
| 1:53.1 | So here we are, LinkedIn community, I know you're watching live, we're taking phone numbers on Facebook where we're live as well. |
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