Sarah Nahm (Lever) - Redesigning the CEO [Explicit]

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

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, inspired by the HR headaches they’d observed working for technology companies, Sarah Nahm and a few friends founded Lever, a talent recruitment platform aimed at transforming the hiring process with intuitive yet data-driven software. Two years later, in 2014, she was named CEO. Based on her experiences designing what became Lever and then leading the company, she puts forward a model of entrepreneurial leadership that is about more than just stubborn confidence, and thrives by embracing the unknown and learning how to observe and trust others.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:13.0	On this episode, we're joined by Sarah Nam,
0:17.0	co-founder and CEO of Lever, a talent recruitment platform.
0:21.6	At Lever, Sarah has worked hard to build a company around diversity and inclusion,
0:26.6	achieving a 50-50 gender balance while expanding the company to more than 40 countries and 2,000 customers.
0:33.6	Here's Sarah.
0:35.6	You know, I don't know about any of you, but and customers. Here's Sarah.
0:43.5	You know, I don't know about any of you, but, you know, 10 years ago, I feel like Stanford actually was a really different place for entrepreneurship. You know, my freshman year was
0:48.8	the first year that Facebook was available to incoming students.
0:55.0	And this kind of notion of like the young entrepreneur
0:58.0	wasn't even really a concept, right?
1:01.0	And very quickly in that period,
1:04.0	we went through all this incredible transformation
1:06.0	in the tech industry.
1:08.0	You know, we obviously saw, you know,
1:10.0	the rise of sort of the hacker in a hoodie.
1:13.6	We saw just this incredible kind of transformation of a whole bunch of industries. We also saw
1:18.6	the 2008, you know, bubble kind of come in for tech. And really, I think, coming out of that,
1:25.6	we had a lot of really incredible mythologies about technology.
1:30.8	I think the whole world was looking at Silicon Valley,
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