On this episode of the Playbook I have Chief Strategy Officer at Lift, Raj Kapoor.

And although we have multiple views on how we get to where we want to go, he focuses on

the skills, the knowledge, and the desire to figure out the correct route to success, especially in the ride share business.

This is entrepreneurs, the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and

entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional Playbook to success and what

made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melter.

This is Dave Melter with entrepreneurs of The Playbook and I am with Raj Kapoor, the chief strategy

officer here at Lift. Extraordinary room by the way. I saw you walk through the

Willie Wanker door behind me. It is great. You know, I've actually

remember meeting you years and years ago here in the Silicon Valley, but one of the things I love

about your career, which mirrors mine,

is that if we were reversed engineered our careers

of how we ended up where we were, people wouldn't believe it.

Right?

Poor young people were like, well, how did you get to where you are?

And I take them through that journey and then like, well, I can't really re-engineer that.

Being an engineer, I'd love to know what background and experience you do have in order to end up as this chief strategy officer here at lift.

Yeah, I think you know more important than even specific degrees is having a mindset and a mindset of curiosity.

And you know, when I was growing up, I was always curious about technology and what the future could be,

maybe because I wasn't happy in the present space. about technology and what the future could be,

maybe because I wasn't happy in the present space,

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