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Ali Ghodsi shares insights on scaling as a CEO

Claire Hughes Johnson shares insights on scaling people

Tony Xu shares insights on scaling as a CEO

Tido and Surabhi share insights on scaling engineering

Chris Payne shares insights on company operating cadence

Rujul Zaparde and Kareem Amin share insights on setting your mission, strategy, and metrics

Zach Perret and Grant LaFontaine share insights on how to hire and manage leaders

Andy shares insights on scaling strategic planning in the age of AI

We spoke to Vercel, Zapier and Notion – and included our experiences from Monzo – to collate best practices for dealing with support backlogs, scaling support, and setting up enterprise customer success functions.

Vlad Tenev shares insights on Scaling as a CEO

Jean-Denis Greze and Albert Strasheim share insights on scaling engineering teams

Guillermo Rauch shares insights on how to scale as a CEO

Karen Peacock runs a working session on leading leaders within your org

Grant and Rujul share insights on setting company-wide Mission, Strategy, and Metrics

Nikesh Arora shares insights on how to scale as a CEO

Ravi Inukonda shares insights on scaling strategic planning

Claire Hughes Johnson shares insights on scaling people

Faire's Marcelo Cortes and Segment's Tido Carriero share their insights from scaling engineering teams

Jeff Lawson shares insights on operating cadence, value systems, and GTM lessons

Parker walks through how he runs Rippling

Qasar and Pedro walk through how they run their companies

Grant and Vlad walk through their frameworks for hiring great leaders

Bill (CEO of Braze) walks through his lessons learned from scaling Braze

Bipul Sinha walks through his lessons from founding and scaling Rubrik

Saji (CEO @ Benchling) and Pedro (CEO @ Brex) share lessons on hiring and managing executives

Dev Ittycheria shares insights from scaling MongoDB to $1.6B of ARR

Arvind Jain (CEO of Glean) walks through how he uses AI to run Glean

Matt Botvinick from DeepMind shares his views on pivotal moments in AI and what's next

Greg Schott walks through enterprise GTM lessons learned from scaling Mulesoft from $1M to $800M ARR

Best practices for hiring and managing leaders

Best practices for defining your mission, setting your strategy, and aligning the company around key metrics

Best practices for leading large teams

Best practices for maintaining speed of execution at scale

Best practices for scaling your engineering, product, and design function

Best practices for scaling your people systems and building a winning culture

Best practices for financial planning and raising growth stage capital

Ernie walks through how he refocused the company, managed external perceptions, and built resilience in the business after the stock dropped 90%+.

Simon candidly walks through his biggest lessons scaling Rappi to 20M orders/month and profitability.

TS candidly walks through his journey helping Monzo rediscover its mojo after COVID-19 and scale to $1B+ of Revenue

Rahul Mehta (DST) and David George (a16z Growth) share what they look for in companies and lessons learned from CEOs in their portfolio

Kareem Amin and Varun Anand, co-founders of Clay, join avra for a discussion covering personal history, founder psychology, immigration stories, cold-email hustle, and the philosophical foundations behind Clay’s product and culture.

Example Mission, Outcomes, Competencies for Whatnot's VP Product