So I got good news and I got bad news for you all. So the good news is that you all have a shot

to be successful to grow to exceed expectations to create a world beating company and

totally kick us. That's the good news. The bad news is I'm not sure it gets any easier.

What kind of employees you hire even when everything works well is really really critical because you will have

a crisis. They didn't know how to help. I wasn't sharing enough information. I wasn't

giving them the context they needed to help force out of this. And I think that was

probably the most important actually step that we

to actually stay in the market, not live the market. We got to go faster. We just

ran down the runway and jumped over a one foot bar. We got to jump over the five foot bar.

He's the only CEO that I've worked with who screwed up his company almost as much as I screwed up mine.

I think a lot of the people were way too much trying to keep everyone happy.

Taking a company from idea to household name is always difficult, but the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most

season CEOs off guard. And we're not talking about challenges like a pixel breaking or a key

customer turning. We or talking about when shit really hits the fan.

Times like when a virus decimates your revenue going from a hundred million dollars to

zero after a year of growing a workforce from 200

to 1200 employees or as Ben likes to say being a post-revenue CEO.

In this episode, you'll hear from two CEOs that navigated these waters and somehow came out on the other side.

Plus, these recordings come straight from our exclusive Connect Enterprise event

bringing together top executives across the A16C network.

First up is Navan co-founder and CEO Arile Cohen, in conversation with A16C co-founder Ben Horowitz.

You'll hear how Ario belts back from perhaps the worst curveball the world could throw at a travel company.

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