How to make the star employees you need, w/Marissa Mayer
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Can't find the star employees you need? Then make them. That's what Marissa Mayer did when she founded the Associate Product Manager program in the early days of Google — one of the company's crown jewels. She mentored a team of young, hungry, talented employees in the ways of Google, and they helped drive its success. She followed that same mindset when she became CEO of Yahoo!, and in all of her leadership roles since then. With a cameo by Karen Kirkland (Nickelodeon).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
| 0:07.8 | with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time. |
| 0:24.8 | So search for rapid response in your podcast player |
| 0:28.0 | and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:32.8 | And now it's time for another exciting episode of |
| 0:40.0 | Captain Hoffman and the Masters of Scale. |
| 0:44.0 | Episode 1. |
| 0:46.0 | Careless Whisker |
| 0:48.0 | Deep in his layer in an abandoned hyperloop |
| 0:51.0 | the villainous kernel mediocrity surveys the results of his latest |
| 0:54.8 | dastardly plan to rid the world of innovation. |
| 0:57.6 | Yes, I've done it. I've lured the greatest minds of Silicon Valley to my most evil venture yet. |
| 1:05.0 | They thought they were joining a cutting edge AI focus 360 degree facing voice recognizing |
| 1:11.0 | self-driving disruptor incubator. But in fact they are now |
| 1:16.5 | all locked into working for the world's biggest cat meme generator. Soon, mediocrity will rain across the valley and no one can stop me. |
| 1:29.0 | Not even, Captain Hoffman. |
| 1:37.0 | Yes, it is I, Captain Hoffman, instigator of innovation, upholder of originality, and advocate for inspiration. |
| 1:41.0 | And I'm here to put an end to your nefarious ways mediocrity once and for all. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh yeah? You and whose army? Why this army? Army. Masters. |
| 1:54.0 | You night. |
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