Grit

Grit

Author: Kleiner Perkins

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Grit explores what it takes to create, build, and scale world-class organizations. It features weekly episodes highlighting the leaders who are pushing their companies to make a difference. This series is hosted by Joubin Mirzadegan, go to market operating partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm investing in history-making founders.
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At Vercel, 91% of support volume is already resolved by an agent.After spending a decade at Google and another at Stripe, Jeanne Grosser shares how AI is changing the way Vercel goes to market.She also talks about the founder relationship as a “professional marriage,” what she looks for in a company she can stay at for a decade, and why she believes every pixel on the internet could eventually be built on Vercel.Guest: Jeanne Grosser, COO of VercelConnect with Jeanne Grosser: XLinkedInConnect with Joubin: XLinkedInEmail: [email protected] Grit on: LinkedInX​Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
How do you keep up when you go from 50 to 500 employees in a year?Jesse Zhang shares how Decagon scaled that quickly, from hiring ahead of demand to keeping the company connected as the team grows.He also explains why the zero-to-one phase is so different from scaling, and how Decagon found its way out of the idea maze in just three weeks.Guest: Jesse Zhang, Co-founder and CEO, DecagonConnect with Jesse ZhangXLinkedIn Connect with Joubin:XLinkedInEmail: [email protected] Grit on LinkedInX​Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
AI could be bigger than electricity.Anastasios Angelopoulos is seeing that shift firsthand, with Arena ranking 500+ models and tracking roughly 10 new releases every week.On Grit, he explains why there may never be one dominant AI model and why the API layer may be less sticky than people think.Guest: Anastasios Angelopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO of ArenaConnect with Anastasios AngelopoulosXLinkedIn Connect with MamoonXLinkedInConnect with Joubin:XLinkedInEmail: [email protected] Grit: LinkedInX​Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
What kind of founder walks away from a multi-billion-dollar fintech company to start building rockets?Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to talk about life after one of the most consequential companies in modern finance, and why he's now betting on Cowboy Space Corporation, an orbital infrastructure company building AI data centers that ride to space inside its own rockets."I still have that dog in me," he says.Baiju opens up about building alone for the first time in 15 years and what he learned about product-market fit while scaling Robinhood through its most chaotic years.Connect with Baiju:XLinkedInConnect with Joubin:XLinkedIn​Email: [email protected] Grit on LinkedInX​Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
"Our mission is to make it easier for everybody to experience the world."From the dot-com crash to AI, Glenn Fogel has spent nearly three decades helping Booking Holdings evolve through every major technology shift while staying true to that mission.He also shares with Joubin Mirzadegan why "you're always selling," and how Booking is using AI to amplify what every employee can accomplish.Guest: Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking HoldingsConnect with GlennLinkedInConnect with Joubin:XLinkedInEmail: [email protected] GritLinkedInX​Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
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