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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How Reddit is Bringing Together Humanity | Interview With Jen Wong, COO, Reddit

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Jen Wong, COO of Reddit, shares her thoughts on: [2:03] - How to build your dream career, regardless of where you go to school [4:00] - The drawbacks of always seeking the “right answer” in the business world [7:00] - Why Reddit is able to bring humanity together with its network of communities [12:35] - The role that trust and third-party opinions have in creating a better sales process for all Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The communities are about individual and family.

0:02.2

We empowered people to talk to each other

0:04.5

and transcend immediate geographic borders.

0:08.8

This is the flavor.

0:10.5

I have an extraordinary entrepreneur,

0:12.6

executive, cheap operating officer

0:15.0

of the incredible company Reddit.

0:17.0

Jen Wong, welcome to the Playbook.

0:20.0

Thank you, thanks for having me.

0:21.7

I'm so excited, just huge fan of companies,

0:24.8

but also of executives.

0:26.3

And I will tell you one of the things

0:28.3

that I love as looking at your career.

0:33.1

There's kind of been pushback

0:35.4

on the academic side of being executive.

0:39.2

I have my friends out there, the Gary Vs of the world,

0:42.5

but talk about college, graduate schools.

0:45.3

And I grew up in the Dr. Lawyer or Failure family.

0:48.9

And my siblings all went to the Ivy League, Harvard,

0:51.8

Penn, Columbia.

0:53.4

I think that we're miscommunicating

0:56.5

the importance of education.

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