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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel — 241 episodes · page 1 of 3
#179 Focusing on the Four Main Buckets with Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler
#178: Will Anything Top El Cap? With Alex Honnold
#176: Why Technology Isn’t the Reason You're Distracted with Nir Eyal
#175: Bridging the Gaps Between Skiing, Climbing & Filmmaking with Jimmy Chin
#174: Never Stop Iterating
#173: Replacing Yourself
#172: Brand Love with Rebecca Messina
#171: Working Backwards with Amazon's Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
#170: Avoid Consensus (Unless You Want Average Results)
#169: Introducing The American Dream with Elias Torres
#168: Seek Arbitrage Opportunities
#167: The Culture Episode
#166: Why DC Went on a News Fast and How You Can Too
#165: How We Think About Storytelling at Drift
#164: The Most Important Question to Ask as a Founder
#163: Drift Is Going Digital First!
#162: 5 Sales & Marketing Predictions for 2021
#161: Go All in with Great Opportunities (They Are Rarer than You Think)
#160: The Psychology Episode (Essential Listening for Marketers)
#159: Learning from History (AKA You Aren't Special)
#158: Prioritize the Biggest Rocks (and Don't Feel Guilty if You Never Get to the Small Ones)
#157: Scaling & Selling a $100M Company with Kyle York (Former Dyn CRO)
#156: The Optimization Trap (and How to Avoid It)
#155: The Importance of Selecting the Right Mentors (and How to Do It)
#154: Double Down on What's Working
#153: Read Every Day
#152: Seeking Wisdom Is Back: How Disruption Leads to Opportunity
A Very Special Message from DG: We're Bringing You More
#Operations 5: The Math Gives You the Data, but the Magic Comes from the People
#Growth 11: Is this the future of personalization?
#Operations 4: Metrics are Meaningless without Segments with Brett Queener, VC & Former Salesforce EVP
Growth #10: How We Think About Product Testing At Drift
#151: The Power Of Keeping A Beginner's Mindset (Bonus: Copywriting Lessons From DC & DG)
#Operations 3: What Ops Pros Can Learn from this $9 Billion Company
#Growth 9: A/B Testing & Bayesian Statistics with Intellimize's Guy Yalif
Best of Seeking Wisdom: DC’s Favorite Books
#150: Choose Wisely: You’re The Average Of The 5 People You Spend The Most Time With
#Operations 2: How to Go from MBA to VP of Operations with Drift's Will Collins
#Growth 8: How to Approach Experimentation: Bite-sized Changes vs. Big Swings
#149: The Story Behind Seeking Wisdom
#148: Getting In The Mud aka Carrying The Water 3.0
#Operations 1: Special Announcement: Introducing #Operations – Go Under the Hood of Hypergrowth Companies like Amazon, Okta & Salesforce
#Growth 7: How To Scale Data Teams The Right Way with Indigo's Lauren Moores
#147: Invert, Always Invert: A Secret to Solving the Most Difficult Problems.
#146: This Billionaire Investor Bet Big On Meritocracy (Here’s How He Did It & Why You Should Too)
#Growth 6: When & How to Make Your First Growth Hire
#145: 10 Books That Will Change How You Lead
#Growth 5: The Most Remarkable Product Onboarding I've Ever Seen
#144: Stop Waiting for Perfect
Special Announcement: The book is here 📚
#143: Did We Forget How Sales Actually Works? With Trish Bertuzzi
#Growth 4: How to Spend 10X Less But Do 10X More. Drift’s Mad Scientist & VP of Growth Weighs In On Must-Have Tools.
#142: Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Life (And Our Simple Trick To Do It)
#Growth 3: The #1 Thing You Need to Make Your Experiments Successful
#141: Lever's CEO on the 3 Key Elements to Hiring for Hypergrowth
"Best Of Seeking Wisdom 2018" Part 2
"Best Of Seeking Wisdom 2018" Part 1
#Growth 2: How to Pick, Plan and Execute a Growth Experiment So You Can 10X Product Activations
#140: DC & DG Answer Your Questions Live
#Exceptions 10: Zoom's Relentless Focus on Customer Experience
#139: Slack Overload, Big Rocks, And Making Time For What Matters
#Growth 1: Choosing the Metric that Matters, Pirate Metrics & Mapping Your Funnel
Special Announcement: Meet the Brand New Podcast from Seeking Wisdom
#138: The 3 Types of Role Models Everyone Needs In Their Career
#Build 11: Julia Austin on the Making of a Great PM – Lessons from Harvard Business School, Digital Ocean, VMWare & Akamai
#Exceptions 9: The Most Crucial Leadership Principle Most B2B Brands Miss
#137: The Most Important Management Book Of All-Time
#Marketing: Lessons From The High Volume Business – Scaling Hootsuite, Vidyard & Constant Contact with Steve Johnson
#Exceptions 8: How First Round Capital Bet on Brand to Change the VC Industry
#136: How To Become A Learning Machine (And Triple The Number Of Books You Read In 2019)
#Build 10: Atlassian's Joff Redfern on Scaling Product Teams through Hypergrowth
#Marketing: 5 Lessons You Can Steal From Today's Top B2B Brands (And The Process Behind Writing A New Book)
#Exceptions 7: Creativity, Constraints and the Rebrand of Grado Labs
#135: Thinking Fast & Slow (And The Reason Why Everything Is Always On Sale)
#Build 9: Product Managers: Want To Work Better With Engineers? Here's The Secret.
#134: This Hiring Secret Can Help You Find Your Next VP
#Exceptions 6: Data, Ego, and the Search for Truth with ProfitWell
SW Classics: You Don't Need More Ideas (You Need More Execution)
#Build 8: Pluralsight’s Nate Walkingshaw on Why The Secret to Hypergrowth Is Building a Product with Empathy
#133: How to Run the Most Effective 1:1 Meetings of Your Career
#Exceptions 5: Moving From Traffic to Audience to Community: Why Buffer Treats Their Customers Like Humans
#132: Beware Of Confirmation Bias
#Build 7: 3 Questions Every Product Team Needs to Ask w/ Sandhya Hegde
#131: 3 Simple Tips To Help You Read More Books (Even If You Don't Like Reading)
#Exceptions 4: Help Scout: Defining, Defending, & Challenging an Entire Industry
#Build 6: How to Hire Diverse Product Management Teams w/ Pratima Arora
#130: Jocko, Casey, & More - It's a HYPERGROWTH East Recap
#Build 5: 4 Ways to Get Customer Feedback Any Time
#129: The Biggest Learning Mistake Most People Make
#Exceptions 3: InVision
#128: Toronto Recap, HYPERGROWTH, DC's First Concert & More
#Marketing: Why Every Marketer Should Have a Swipe File
#127: DC's Secret To Managing Your Career at a Hypergrowth Company
#Build 4: Backlogs Don't Matter
#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO w/ Jill Rowley
#126: The Education of the Young Nephew (Our Favorite Books From Summer 2018)
#Exceptions 2: Wistia
#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Mike Volpe
#125: DC Is Back From Sabbatical. Here’s What He Learned.
#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Brian Kardon