The power of the SOD/EOD plus Bill Maris on early Google stories, origins of GV, bioterrorism & more | E1236
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We've got a great show for you today. What a treat. Section 32's Bill Maris is on |
| 0:05.5 | the program. He founded Google Ventures and he has amazing stories about Uber, Tesla, |
| 0:12.8 | and everything that happened at Google during the formative years. A tremendous guest can't believe |
| 0:19.0 | we waited till our second decade to have him on the podcast. Yes, we've been doing this podcast |
| 0:23.6 | now for over 10 years. Crazy when you think about that. And I love it. My god, for me doing this |
| 0:28.7 | podcast is just like, it's like a little bit of a mental workout for me. So three, four, |
| 0:33.2 | five days a week, I like to work out and do this show. I wish I could do that on the actual physical |
| 0:37.3 | workouts. I'm trying to get there. This week in startups is brought to you by |
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| 1:28.4 | twist using code twist. I wanted to continue this new format that we started here based on the |
| 1:34.8 | founder university program. So these are our little fun segments, founder university new segments. |
| 1:40.4 | Today, I want to talk about something that is incredibly important, which is how to manage |
| 1:48.5 | remote workers, how to give people autonomy, freedom, and responsibility. I started this |
| 1:57.0 | program called the SODOD. Start of day, end of day reporting. Maybe four or five years ago in |
| 2:05.8 | my organization's remote organizations like inside.com, which I run. And then I moved it over to |
| 2:10.7 | launch, which was an in-person organization, but we increasingly had remote workers in Canada |
| 2:16.2 | and other locations because we opened up a Canadian office and we wanted to make sure we stayed |
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