#002B Summary Episode - Pivots Through Growth with Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy - a podcast by Ann Hiatt

from 2020-11-18T09:24:49

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I hope you enjoyed last week's episode of Bet On Yourself Podcast with Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy. If you haven’t listened yet, you can find it here. It's a great episode that touches on some really important topics such as the digital and economic divide, building the right leadership team and dealing with growth.


This week's episode is a TLDR for Sal's episode with some of the takeaways and ways in which you can implement some of the strategies we discussed. You can find the summary below, if you'd like to watch the video you can find it on my YouTube channel here


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Summary episode:



  • Bootstrapping the company


  • His delusional optimism and severe pragmatism sides informing how to scale to serving millions of people


  • Messy on the inside even though it looks perfect on the outside


  • Redefining your abilities by letting go of self assessments that don’t serve us or are even accurate of our actual abilities


  • Building the right leadership team to run fast and far


  • How you can attract top talent in Silicon Valley without stock offerings


  • Growing pains with scale only works with focused communication


  • Philosophy to avoid overwhelm - do the right thing and the chips will fall into place. It is outside of self. 1- Truthful, 2-?, 3- Chaotic


  • Passion = suffering




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