People on the record here who work in technology, and what they were asked.
18 people · 154 answers
Former chief operating officer of Facebook; founder of LeanIn.org
Recorded · Los Angeles Times · 2016
Day one of my first job out of college, my boss found out that I didn't know how to enter data into Lotus 1-2-3. That's a spreadsheet—ask your parents.
Co-founder and former chairman of Infosys
Recorded · Rediff · 2007
I will begin with the importance of learning from experience. It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn.
Co-founder and chief executive of Canva
Recorded · Irish Tech News
To launch Canva, we needed investment and a tech team. Finding the right people for both took two years but there is always a lot of rejection for entrepreneurs in their early days.
Co-founder and former chief executive of Spotify
Recorded · Music Ally · 2016
It was like switching out the engines mid-flight.
Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb
Recorded · Yahoo Finance
When we started Airbnb, no one wanted to invest. I felt like a failure so many days. It was small, it wasn't growing... A sane person probably would have quit.
Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
Recorded · NVIDIA Blog · 2024
One setback after another, we shook it off and skated to the next opportunity. Each time, we gain skills and strengthen our character.
Co-founder and chief executive of Google DeepMind; Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2017
I think chess — actually, a number of things that I learned when I was young — it wasn't so much the chess itself; it was the skills that you were training while you were playing chess.
Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
Recorded · Toyo Keizai
In Rakuten's case, adjustment certainly took time. At first, meetings often felt awkward.
Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
Recorded · The Giving Pledge · 2021
we should invest the majority of our wealth the same way we are investing the majority of our time- by helping to improve people's lives.
Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb
Recorded · Fortune · 2017
We need to have mentors. I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
Co-founder of Coursera and of Google Brain; founder of DeepLearning.AI
Recorded · DeepLearning.AI · 2020
I just finished reading BJ Fogg's new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.
Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
Recorded · Sequoia Capital · 2018
Moving closer to work. I live in São Paulo, Brazil, and I used to spend an hour or more in traffic every day, just sitting in the car getting frustrated and anxious.
Former chief operating officer of Facebook; founder of LeanIn.org
Recorded · Los Angeles Times · 2016
Finding gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience. People who take the time to list things they are grateful for are happier and healthier.
Chief executive of Alphabet and Google
Recorded · Google (The Keyword) · 2020
It took me a while to realize that the internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people.
Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox
Recorded · MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2013
That night, I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story.
Co-founder and chief executive of Zerodha
Recorded · Nithin Kamath's blog · 2022
Sleeping by 9 pm & getting a workout at 5 am has been helpful. Sleeping early reduces the chances of bingeing when we are drained and have low self-control at the end of the day.
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