Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living) - Scaling with Purpose

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kulveer Taggar is the co-founder and CEO of Zeus Living, a tech-driven property management company focused on disrupting the corporate housing market. The company raised a $55 million Series B round in December 2019, and has hosted more than 17,000 residents in its furnished units. In this talk, he explores how thinking on a scale of decades rather than just a few years has impacted his company’s culture and strategy.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.7	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:14.1	On this episode, we're joined by Colvere Tagger.
0:18.4	Colvere is the co-founder and CEO of Zeus Living, a tech-driven property
0:23.6	management company focused on disrupting the corporate housing market. Here's Colvere.
0:29.6	It's a pleasure to have this opportunity to talk to all of you today.
0:36.6	The framework that I used for the content is have this opportunity to talk to all of you today.
0:37.8	The framework that I used for the content is,
0:41.9	what do I wish I had known as an undergrad?
0:45.6	And from these lessons that I've learned,
0:48.9	how am I applying them today in my role as CEO of Zeus.
0:56.0	So this is an email that I wrote about 12 years ago, pretty much to this week, to Facebook,
1:03.0	where I was turning down an acquisition offer that they had given us.
1:09.0	And when I reflect back on, I know, some of the mistakes that I made in my 20s,
1:14.6	one of the things that I realized pretty quickly was
1:18.6	they tended to stem out of some form of impatience
1:22.6	or just having too short of a time horizon.
1:26.6	And, you know, for me, if even one of you left this room today
1:34.3	with a slightly longer time horizon than you had before you came in,
1:38.3	I would view that as a success.
1:41.3	I'm actually really intrigued by how things change for you in terms of outcomes
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