Ep097 – Casey Fenton (Founder – Couchsurfing) on hacking your ego

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep097 – Casey Fenton (Founder – Couchsurfing) on hacking your ego March 5, 2019 rohitbhargava Podcast My guest for Episode 97 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the founder of CouchSurfing.com, Casey Fenton. From growing up in a small town, Caseys love for new experiences and travel led him to founding CouchSurfing.com, a global community of 15million locals and travellers. Since stepping away as the CEO in 2012, Casey has been involved in a number of startups, most recently as the co-founder and CEO of Upstock, a performance-based equity tool to help startups effectively navigate and leverage their equity options. Outside of this, Casey is also writing a new book on Ego Hacking which provides tools and framework for individuals to go beyond their ego to become better leaders and generate increased cooperation at scale. We covered a lot of ground in this interview including: How Casey built and scaled CouchSurfing without spending money on marketingScaling through distributed decision makingHow to best utilise  and split equity fairlyHow to hack your ego This podcast was produced by the awesome team at Playbook Media. If you would like to launch your own personal or business podcast, say hello to [email protected]. Show notes:– Couchsurfing.com– upstock.io– Byron Katie – The Work– Casey (email) Check out my new video series on Youtube! Feedback/connect/say hello:[email protected]@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)My Youtube Channel Credits:Music: Joakim Karud – Dreams Other channels:Don’t have iTunes? The podcast is also available on Soundcloud & StitcherAudio Player http://traffic.libsyn.com/startupplaybook/Ep097_-_Casey_Fenton.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-moz-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea:-ms-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } Copyright © 2015 - Live Composer The post Ep097 – Casey Fenton (Founder – Couchsurfing) on hacking your ego appeared first on Startup Playbook.