Suneel Gupta on becoming backable

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Backable author Suneel Gupta teaches us why loving the problem is more powerful than needing to own the solution, and shares the value of having someone poke holes in your best ideas.

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0:00.0	The LinkedIn podcast network is brought to you by ExxonMobile.
0:03.3	The world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.
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0:13.0	deliver lower emissions. Learn more at ExxonMobile.com.
0:18.7	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.
0:22.8	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:27.2	You know, there are some people you just want to bet on.
0:31.4	Founders, you believe in writers who can get you to publish their books.
0:36.2	Politicians who inspire others with their ideas.
0:40.5	And this IT factor, well, it's an important quality for success.
0:44.8	And yet it can be really hard to distill.
0:47.4	It's not charisma, exactly.
0:49.6	It's not excellence entirely. It's something more.
0:54.4	My friend, Sunil Gupta, has been studying this IT factor,
0:59.0	and he just published a new book on the subject.
1:01.4	It's called Backable, the surprising truth behind what makes people take a chance on you.
1:07.7	Sunil's got a lot of first-hand experience in this.
1:10.4	He's helped build tech businesses.
1:12.7	He started and sold a company, rise.
1:16.1	He's run for Congress.
1:18.0	And in the process, he's learned a lot about what inspires you to get behind a person
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