Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A16Z podcast. In today's episode, A16Z general partner Katie Hahn

interviews Susan Rice, the former national security advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the UN. She's the author

of a memoir, Tough Love. This is a candid talk in which Ambassador Rice discusses leadership,

what it is, how to achieve it, and how to focus under the

extreme pressure of global crisis. She also talks about U.S. foreign relations and what role

the tech community can play. This conversation took place at our most recent innovation conference,

the A16C Summit. It was previously released on YouTube if you'd like to check it out there.

Susan, it's so great to see you again here in LA.

And this time I get to share you with this audience, which I'm really excited about.

You've had such an incredible life, and you've been in so many rooms and situations

that really, very few of us, even in this rarefied room, will ever really

get to experience.

Aside from being Obama's national security advisor and the U.S. ambassador of the United Nations,

you were also the youngest assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration.

And you were Rhodes Scholar.

You have your doctorate from Oxford, and of course,

all of these experiences meant that you had a front row seat to some pretty interesting

situations, things like the Snowden Leaks, North Korea, negotiations with Iran, the war

against ISIS, the Ukraine, and now you're on the board of Netflix.

You write for the New York Times, and you've just published your memoir, Tough Love.

So, Susan, in Tough Love, you write that when you were in your younger years, when you were 32,

people said about you that you were smart and dynamic and

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