Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel
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Want to get better every single day? Tune into Seeking Wisdom, a podcast hosted by Drift's David Cancel. You'll hear about the leadership principles that have changed his personal and professional outlook and the hard-earned lessons he's learned over his 25+ year career as a 5X startup founder.
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#179 Focusing on the Four Main Buckets with Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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#178: Will Anything Top El Cap? With Alex Honnold
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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#176: Why Technology Isn’t the Reason You're Distracted with Nir Eyal
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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#175: Bridging the Gaps Between Skiing, Climbing & Filmmaking with Jimmy Chin
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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#174: Never Stop Iterating
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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#173: Replacing Yourself
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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#172: Brand Love with Rebecca Messina
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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#171: Working Backwards with Amazon's Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
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May 17, 2021 |
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#170: Avoid Consensus (Unless You Want Average Results)
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May 03, 2021 |
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#169: Introducing The American Dream with Elias Torres
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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#168: Seek Arbitrage Opportunities
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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#167: The Culture Episode
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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#166: Why DC Went on a News Fast and How You Can Too
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#165: How We Think About Storytelling at Drift
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#164: The Most Important Question to Ask as a Founder
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#163: Drift Is Going Digital First!
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#162: 5 Sales & Marketing Predictions for 2021
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#161: Go All in with Great Opportunities (They Are Rarer than You Think)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#160: The Psychology Episode (Essential Listening for Marketers)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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#159: Learning from History (AKA You Aren't Special)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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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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Nov 23, 2020 |
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#157: Scaling & Selling a $100M Company with Kyle York (Former Dyn CRO)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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#156: The Optimization Trap (and How to Avoid It)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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#155: The Importance of Selecting the Right Mentors (and How to Do It)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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#154: Double Down on What's Working
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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#153: Read Every Day
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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#152: Seeking Wisdom Is Back: How Disruption Leads to Opportunity
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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A Very Special Message from DG: We're Bringing You More
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May 15, 2019 |
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#Operations 5: The Math Gives You the Data, but the Magic Comes from the People
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May 03, 2019 |
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#Growth 11: Is this the future of personalization?
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May 01, 2019 |
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#Operations 4: Metrics are Meaningless without Segments with Brett Queener, VC & Former Salesforce EVP
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Growth #10: How We Think About Product Testing At Drift
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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#151: The Power Of Keeping A Beginner's Mindset (Bonus: Copywriting Lessons From DC & DG)
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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#Operations 3: What Ops Pros Can Learn from this $9 Billion Company
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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#Growth 9: A/B Testing & Bayesian Statistics with Intellimize's Guy Yalif
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Best of Seeking Wisdom: DC’s Favorite Books
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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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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Mar 25, 2019 |
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#Operations 2: How to Go from MBA to VP of Operations with Drift's Will Collins
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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#Growth 8: How to Approach Experimentation: Bite-sized Changes vs. Big Swings
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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#149: The Story Behind Seeking Wisdom
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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#148: Getting In The Mud aka Carrying The Water 3.0
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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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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Mar 08, 2019 |
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#Growth 7: How To Scale Data Teams The Right Way with Indigo's Lauren Moores
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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#147: Invert, Always Invert: A Secret to Solving the Most Difficult Problems.
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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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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Feb 25, 2019 |
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#Growth 6: When & How to Make Your First Growth Hire
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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#145: 10 Books That Will Change How You Lead
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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#Growth 5: The Most Remarkable Product Onboarding I've Ever Seen
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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#144: Stop Waiting for Perfect
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Special Announcement: The book is here 📚
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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#143: Did We Forget How Sales Actually Works? With Trish Bertuzzi
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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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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Jan 23, 2019 |
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#142: Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Life (And Our Simple Trick To Do It)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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#Growth 3: The #1 Thing You Need to Make Your Experiments Successful
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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#141: Lever's CEO on the 3 Key Elements to Hiring for Hypergrowth
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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"Best Of Seeking Wisdom 2018" Part 2
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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"Best Of Seeking Wisdom 2018" Part 1
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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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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Dec 19, 2018 |
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#140: DC & DG Answer Your Questions Live
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 10: Zoom's Relentless Focus on Customer Experience
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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#139: Slack Overload, Big Rocks, And Making Time For What Matters
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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#Growth 1: Choosing the Metric that Matters, Pirate Metrics & Mapping Your Funnel
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Special Announcement: Meet the Brand New Podcast from Seeking Wisdom
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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#138: The 3 Types of Role Models Everyone Needs In Their Career
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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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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Nov 30, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 9: The Most Crucial Leadership Principle Most B2B Brands Miss
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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#137: The Most Important Management Book Of All-Time
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Lessons From The High Volume Business – Scaling Hootsuite, Vidyard & Constant Contact with Steve Johnson
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 8: How First Round Capital Bet on Brand to Change the VC Industry
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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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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Nov 12, 2018 |
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#Build 10: Atlassian's Joff Redfern on Scaling Product Teams through Hypergrowth
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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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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Nov 05, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 7: Creativity, Constraints and the Rebrand of Grado Labs
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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#135: Thinking Fast & Slow (And The Reason Why Everything Is Always On Sale)
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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#Build 9: Product Managers: Want To Work Better With Engineers? Here's The Secret.
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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#134: This Hiring Secret Can Help You Find Your Next VP
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 6: Data, Ego, and the Search for Truth with ProfitWell
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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SW Classics: You Don't Need More Ideas (You Need More Execution)
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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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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Oct 12, 2018 |
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#133: How to Run the Most Effective 1:1 Meetings of Your Career
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 5: Moving From Traffic to Audience to Community: Why Buffer Treats Their Customers Like Humans
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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#132: Beware Of Confirmation Bias
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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#Build 7: 3 Questions Every Product Team Needs to Ask w/ Sandhya Hegde
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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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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Sep 24, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 4: Help Scout: Defining, Defending, & Challenging an Entire Industry
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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#Build 6: How to Hire Diverse Product Management Teams w/ Pratima Arora
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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#130: Jocko, Casey, & More - It's a HYPERGROWTH East Recap
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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#Build 5: 4 Ways to Get Customer Feedback Any Time
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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#129: The Biggest Learning Mistake Most People Make
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 3: InVision
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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#128: Toronto Recap, HYPERGROWTH, DC's First Concert & More
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Why Every Marketer Should Have a Swipe File
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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#127: DC's Secret To Managing Your Career at a Hypergrowth Company
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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#Build 4: Backlogs Don't Matter
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO w/ Jill Rowley
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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#126: The Education of the Young Nephew (Our Favorite Books From Summer 2018)
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 2: Wistia
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Mike Volpe
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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#125: DC Is Back From Sabbatical. Here’s What He Learned.
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Brian Kardon
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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#Marketing: What Social Media Engagement Can Teach You About Your Marketing Strategy
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO - Tim Kopp
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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#124: Reading, Leadership Principles, and Drift Sabbaticals w/ ET
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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#Marketing: Coffee With a CMO w/ Joe Chernov
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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#Exceptions 1: Gusto
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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#Exceptions: Teaser Trailer
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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#Marketing: A 5-Part Framework for the Perfect Presentation
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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#Build 3: Maintaining Autonomy w/ Martin Eriksson
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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#Build 2: Failure is a Part of the Process
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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#Marketing: The One Secret To Building A Brand You Need To Know For 2018
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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#Build 1: How to Get Hired by People Who Don't Want to Hire You
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Introducing #Build: A New Seeking Wisdom Show
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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#marketing This Episode Will Help You Be More Creative In 30 Minutes
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: We Just Dropped The Entire #HYPERGROWTH18 Lineup
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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#123: Molly Graham (Former Exec. at Facebook, Quip) on the 9 Things She Wished People Told Her About Scaling a Company
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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#122: The 11 Books We Keep In The Drift Lobby For Everyone
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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#marketing Here’s The Secret To Coming Up With The Best Content Ideas Of Your Career
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May 22, 2018 |
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#122: Comfort Is The Enemy Of Growth
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May 18, 2018 |
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#121: Play Bigger, Creating a Category, and the Bermuda Triangle
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May 10, 2018 |
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#marketing The Best Performing Marketing Channel That No One Ever Talks About
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May 07, 2018 |
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#120: #AskDC and Lessons from The Best in Retail (Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart)
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May 03, 2018 |
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#marketing The $4.6B Lead Engagement Problem (And The 2018 Drift Lead Response Report)
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May 01, 2018 |
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#marketing Podcast Gear & What We Use To Record Seeking Wisdom
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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#119: Super Bowl Champion & 7-Time New England Patriots Captain Jerod Mayo
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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#marketing This One Thing Can Change Your Career In Marketing
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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#marketing How We Went Viral On LinkedIn and Generated 300k Views Without Spending $
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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A Very Special Message From DC & DG (We're Bringing You More Seeking Wisdom)
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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#118: The 6 Principles Of Influence (AKA The One Book Every Business Should Know Cold)
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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#117: The Difference Between Pain & Discomfort with Shannon McGarity
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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#116: Here's Why You Need To Own Your Audience Online (And A Cautionary Tale From DC)
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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#114: Don't Be Scared Of A Crowded Market
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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#113: The Cerebral Seller & Former Salesforce Sales Scientist, David Priemer
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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SW Classics: Carry The Water
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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#112: Limiting Beliefs
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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#111: Why Steli Efti Thought Branding Was Bullshit
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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#110: Amy Chang - The CEO Who Ran Google Analytics And Is On The Board Of Cisco And Proctor & Gamble
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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#109: 5 Management Lessons From Peter Drucker
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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#108: Rich Roll & Brad Stulberg On Health, Wellness, And Mental Well-Being
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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#107: A Special Announcement
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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#106: Silicon Valley's Mad Scientist (AKA The G)
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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#105: Public Speaking, Pricing, & Changing How You Learn, with Patrick Campbell
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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#104: The Shift From Supply To Demand (And How It Will Impact Your Business In 2018)
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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#103: Carol Meyers Live
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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#102: How To Say No To Meetings
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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#101: The Lies We Tell Ourselves The Most
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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#100: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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#99: One Secret To Our Strategy At Drift
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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#98: Customer Experience Is The New Marketing
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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#97: The Science Of Sales With Shopify’s Loren Padelford
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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#96: The Danger Of Role Models
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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#95: Peak Performance And The Formula For Growth With Brad Stulberg
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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#94: Servant Leadership
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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#92: You Don't Need More Ideas (You Need More Execution)
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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#84: Unconventional Things We've Done To Grow Drift
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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#83: Lunch With The CEO
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Join Us For Seeking Wisdom LIVE!
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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#82: Paul English on Hiring, People, and Time Management
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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#81: The Reason We Started Seeking Wisdom
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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#80: Why DC Sent His Co-Founder to Meet Jocko Willink
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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#79: 3 Lessons From Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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#78: Why We Decided To Launch A Conference
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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#77: Does It Matter Where You Sit At Work?
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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#76: Two Things That Tell You Everything During An Interview
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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#75: Time Management
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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#74 Finding Your Why
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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#73: The Hypergrowth Curve
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May 30, 2017 |
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#72: Leadership Lessons From A Navy Seal
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May 23, 2017 |
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#71: Secrets
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May 17, 2017 |
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#70: 5-Time Olympic Medalist Nastia Liukin
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May 10, 2017 |
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#69: Working Smarter vs. Working Harder
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May 03, 2017 |
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#68: Strengths and Weaknesses
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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#67: 10 Lessons From Patagonia
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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#66: How To Get A Promotion
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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A Special Offer
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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#65: Mike Volpe
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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#64: Morning Routines
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Apr 05, 2017 |
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#63: DC, DG, And Emmanuelle Skala From Digital Ocean
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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#62: Wealth And Happiness Lessons From Jim Rohn
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Mar 24, 2017 |
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#61: Why We Invested So Much In Our Brand From Day One
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Mar 15, 2017 |
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#60: Fear (Why It Holds Us Back)
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Mar 15, 2017 |
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#59: Be Careful Who You Compare Yourself To
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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#58: Talking Brand With Mike Troiano
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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#57: How We Do Internal Communication At Drift
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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#56: Momentum Makers, Perfectionists, And Founder Bombs
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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#55: Freemium Or Sales Reps? Here's Why We Picked Both
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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#54: The Power Of Peer Groups
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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#53: Stop Waiting For That Amazing Business Idea
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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#52 InVision SVP of Sales Ryan Burke
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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#51: How To Run A Meeting
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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#50: What We Learned Starting This Podcast In 2016
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Dec 28, 2016 |
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#49: How To Overcome Self Doubt
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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#48: Goals
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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#47: Management & Career Growth
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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#46: Lunch With Mark Roberge
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Nov 30, 2016 |
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#45: Our Approach To Content Marketing
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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44: How To Prioritize
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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43: Slack, Microsoft, and Shoe Dog
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Nov 09, 2016 |
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42: Is It A Company Problem Or A Customer Problem?
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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41: A Quick One On Gratitude
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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40: How To Price Your Product
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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39: Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact On Us
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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38: Product Managers, CEO’s, And A Book Preview
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Oct 12, 2016 |
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37: Why I'm Working On Drift
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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36: How To Work
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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35: People Don’t Care About Your Product
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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34: How To Stay On Point When You're Traveling
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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33: Why You Can't
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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32: Customer Feedback
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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31: The Score Takes Care Of Itself
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Aug 31, 2016 |
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30: Be Careful Who You Take Advice From [Five Minute Friday]
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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29: Startup Lessons From Gail Goodman
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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28: How To Come Up With Better Ideas
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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27: 3 Hiring Secrets (And Why You Need To Rely More On Your Senses)
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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26: The Biggest Mistakes We've Made + Some Book Recommendations
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Aug 12, 2016 |
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25: The One Question No One Asks Before Starting A Company
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Aug 10, 2016 |
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24: Why You Should Run Your Business Without Roadmaps
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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23: Why Great Products Don't Always Win
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Jul 24, 2016 |
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Ask Us Anything (We Want Your Questions!)
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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22: Fitness, Workout Routines, And Finding The Time To Get It Done
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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21: The New One Minute Manager
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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20: Why A Guy With 200,000 Monthly Readers Killed His Lead Forms, Too
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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19: Career Advice: Why Millennials Need To Carry The Water
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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18: The Grind: Why You Have To Put In The Work
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Jun 21, 2016 |
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17: Why The Early Days Of A Startup Are Like Wandering Through The Desert
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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16: Stopping The BS: How To Move Fast Even As You Scale
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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15: Do You Really Want Success?
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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14: Innovation, Not Invention
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Jun 01, 2016 |
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13: How To Set Goals For Your Startup (And The Power Of Focus)
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May 25, 2016 |
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12: The Myth Of Work Life Balance
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May 16, 2016 |
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11: Why We Killed Our Lead Forms And Gated Content
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May 09, 2016 |
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10: The Things That Don't Scale
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May 04, 2016 |
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09: Just Ship It
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Apr 27, 2016 |
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08: Building A Sales Team With Mark Roberge
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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07: Noah Kagan
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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06: This Is Why I Never Hire Product Managers
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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05: Should You Send Your Kids To College?
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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04: You Need More Role Models
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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03: Want Happier And More Productive Employees? Give Them Autonomy
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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02: The Secret To Becoming A Learning Machine
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Jan 20, 2016 |
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01: How A Modern Product Team Should Work
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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00: Introducing Seeking Wisdom With David Cancel
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Jan 06, 2016 |