Suneel Gupta (Part 2) - The Importance of Storytelling and Your Collaborator, Coach, Cheerleader, and Critic

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🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This is part 2 of my interview with Suneel Gupta. I absolutely loved this conversation and I have no doubt it will be useful for you. Suneel is an amazing and genuine human being with pure gold to offer.Suneel is the founder of RISE and faculty member at Harvard University. Using the seven steps inside his latest book, Backable - which teaches that the “It-factor” is learnable and needed to convince others to back you - Suneel went from being 'the face of failure' for the New York Times...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to slow more. Hey there. I'm sure you're here because you enjoyed my first part conversation with
0:39.1	this wonderful human being Sunil Gupta. Sunil is the author of a wonderful book called Backable,
0:45.8	of which we've discussed some of the concepts in part one.
0:48.8	Backable really is all about teaching you
0:52.4	some of the common criteria or common characteristics of those who
0:58.2	manage to earn the back up and support of others.
1:02.4	Very, very clever book, very genuine human being,
1:05.2	wonderful and generous with his advice.
1:07.8	Sunil is not a stranger to being backable.
1:11.3	He's probably one of the people I feel are more backable than many of the
1:16.9	others that I meet every day. He also has an interesting track record of success.
1:22.4	He is the founder of Rise, a startup in the medical space
1:25.9	that he managed to get backup and support
1:29.4	from major investors as well as Google Ventures.
1:33.0	He eventually got that to be acquired by one of the larger players in the medical space in the US.
1:39.0	He worked in major organizations like Mozilla and Groupon. And although he comes from a low background
1:47.6	with a low degree, he was a successful product manager, he went into technology, he went into politics, and he invested successfully early on in
1:58.2	companies like Airbnb and calm and SpaceX, yes the ones that you and I have missed.
2:04.0	Sunil is a Harvard University faculty member.
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