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#179 Focusing on the Four Main Buckets with Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler

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#178: Will Anything Top El Cap? With Alex Honnold

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#176: Why Technology Isn’t the Reason You're Distracted with Nir Eyal

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#175: Bridging the Gaps Between Skiing, Climbing & Filmmaking with Jimmy Chin

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#174: Never Stop Iterating

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#173: Replacing Yourself

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#172: Brand Love with Rebecca Messina

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#171: Working Backwards with Amazon's Colin Bryar and Bill Carr

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#170: Avoid Consensus (Unless You Want Average Results)

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#169: Introducing The American Dream with Elias Torres

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#168: Seek Arbitrage Opportunities

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#167: The Culture Episode

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#166: Why DC Went on a News Fast and How You Can Too

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#165: How We Think About Storytelling at Drift

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#164: The Most Important Question to Ask as a Founder

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#163: Drift Is Going Digital First!

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#162: 5 Sales & Marketing Predictions for 2021

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#161: Go All in with Great Opportunities (They Are Rarer than You Think)

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#160: The Psychology Episode (Essential Listening for Marketers)

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#159: Learning from History (AKA You Aren't Special)

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#158: Prioritize the Biggest Rocks (and Don't Feel Guilty if You Never Get to the Small Ones)

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#157: Scaling & Selling a $100M Company with Kyle York (Former Dyn CRO)

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#156: The Optimization Trap (and How to Avoid It)

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#155: The Importance of Selecting the Right Mentors (and How to Do It)

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#154: Double Down on What's Working

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#153: Read Every Day

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#152: Seeking Wisdom Is Back: How Disruption Leads to Opportunity

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A Very Special Message from DG: We're Bringing You More

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#Operations 5: The Math Gives You the Data, but the Magic Comes from the People

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#Growth 11: Is this the future of personalization?

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#Operations 4: Metrics are Meaningless without Segments with Brett Queener, VC & Former Salesforce EVP

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Growth #10: How We Think About Product Testing At Drift

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#151: The Power Of Keeping A Beginner's Mindset (Bonus: Copywriting Lessons From DC & DG)

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#Operations 3: What Ops Pros Can Learn from this $9 Billion Company

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#Growth 9: A/B Testing & Bayesian Statistics with Intellimize's Guy Yalif

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Best of Seeking Wisdom: DC’s Favorite Books

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#150: Choose Wisely: You’re The Average Of The 5 People You Spend The Most Time With

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#Operations 2: How to Go from MBA to VP of Operations with Drift's Will Collins

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#Growth 8: How to Approach Experimentation: Bite-sized Changes vs. Big Swings

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#149: The Story Behind Seeking Wisdom

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#148: Getting In The Mud aka Carrying The Water 3.0

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#Operations 1: Special Announcement: Introducing #Operations – Go Under the Hood of Hypergrowth Companies like Amazon, Okta & Salesforce

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#Growth 7: How To Scale Data Teams The Right Way with Indigo's Lauren Moores

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#147: Invert, Always Invert: A Secret to Solving the Most Difficult Problems.

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#146: This Billionaire Investor Bet Big On Meritocracy (Here’s How He Did It & Why You Should Too)

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#Growth 6: When & How to Make Your First Growth Hire

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#145: 10 Books That Will Change How You Lead

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#Growth 5: The Most Remarkable Product Onboarding I've Ever Seen

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#144: Stop Waiting for Perfect

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Special Announcement: The book is here 📚

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#143: Did We Forget How Sales Actually Works? With Trish Bertuzzi

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#Growth 4: How to Spend 10X Less But Do 10X More. Drift’s Mad Scientist & VP of Growth Weighs In On Must-Have Tools.

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#142: Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Life (And Our Simple Trick To Do It)

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#Growth 3: The #1 Thing You Need to Make Your Experiments Successful

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#141: Lever's CEO on the 3 Key Elements to Hiring for Hypergrowth

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"Best Of Seeking Wisdom 2018" Part 2

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"Best Of Seeking Wisdom 2018" Part 1

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#Growth 2: How to Pick, Plan and Execute a Growth Experiment So You Can 10X Product Activations

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#140: DC & DG Answer Your Questions Live

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#Exceptions 10: Zoom's Relentless Focus on Customer Experience

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#139: Slack Overload, Big Rocks, And Making Time For What Matters

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#Growth 1: Choosing the Metric that Matters, Pirate Metrics & Mapping Your Funnel

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Special Announcement: Meet the Brand New Podcast from Seeking Wisdom

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#138: The 3 Types of Role Models Everyone Needs In Their Career

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#Build 11: Julia Austin on the Making of a Great PM – Lessons from Harvard Business School, Digital Ocean, VMWare & Akamai

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#Exceptions 9: The Most Crucial Leadership Principle Most B2B Brands Miss

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#137: The Most Important Management Book Of All-Time

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#Marketing: Lessons From The High Volume Business – Scaling Hootsuite, Vidyard & Constant Contact with Steve Johnson

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#Exceptions 8: How First Round Capital Bet on Brand to Change the VC Industry

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#136: How To Become A Learning Machine (And Triple The Number Of Books You Read In 2019)

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#Build 10: Atlassian's Joff Redfern on Scaling Product Teams through Hypergrowth

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#Marketing: 5 Lessons You Can Steal From Today's Top B2B Brands (And The Process Behind Writing A New Book)

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#Exceptions 7: Creativity, Constraints and the Rebrand of Grado Labs

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#135: Thinking Fast & Slow (And The Reason Why Everything Is Always On Sale)

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#Build 9: Product Managers: Want To Work Better With Engineers? Here's The Secret.

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#134: This Hiring Secret Can Help You Find Your Next VP

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#Exceptions 6: Data, Ego, and the Search for Truth with ProfitWell

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SW Classics: You Don't Need More Ideas (You Need More Execution)

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#Build 8: Pluralsight’s Nate Walkingshaw on Why The Secret to Hypergrowth Is Building a Product with Empathy

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#133: How to Run the Most Effective 1:1 Meetings of Your Career

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#Exceptions 5: Moving From Traffic to Audience to Community: Why Buffer Treats Their Customers Like Humans

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#132: Beware Of Confirmation Bias

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#Build 7: 3 Questions Every Product Team Needs to Ask w/ Sandhya Hegde

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#131: 3 Simple Tips To Help You Read More Books (Even If You Don't Like Reading)

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#Exceptions 4: Help Scout: Defining, Defending, & Challenging an Entire Industry

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#Build 6: How to Hire Diverse Product Management Teams w/ Pratima Arora

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#130: Jocko, Casey, & More - It's a HYPERGROWTH East Recap

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#Build 5: 4 Ways to Get Customer Feedback Any Time

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#129: The Biggest Learning Mistake Most People Make

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#Exceptions 3: InVision

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#128: Toronto Recap, HYPERGROWTH, DC's First Concert & More

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#Marketing: Why Every Marketer Should Have a Swipe File

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#127: DC's Secret To Managing Your Career at a Hypergrowth Company

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#Build 4: Backlogs Don't Matter

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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO w/ Jill Rowley

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#126: The Education of the Young Nephew (Our Favorite Books From Summer 2018)

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#Exceptions 2: Wistia

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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Mike Volpe

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#125: DC Is Back From Sabbatical. Here’s What He Learned.

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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Brian Kardon