About this episode
In the first Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Jeanne De Witt Grosser, Chief Operating Officer at Vercel. Before Vercel, Jeanne spent nearly a decade at Stripe, where she built and scaled global revenue teams and led product partnerships. In this conversation, she unpacks what separates good executives from extraordinary ones, shares her rigorous executive hiring process, and reveals the brutally honest performance review feedback she'll never forget.
In today's episode, we discuss:
What it takes to operate at 30,000 feet and ground level simultaneously
The leap from frontline manager to manager of managers
Inside Jeanne's executive interview process
The inherent value of driver trees for metrics
Why context is everything
References:
Akamai: https://www.akamai.com
Claire Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-hughes-johnson-7058/
Culture Amp: https://www.cultureamp.com
Guillermo Rauch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rauchg
John Collison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbcollison/
Next.js: https://nextjs.org
Nike: https://www.nike.com
OpenAI: https://www.openai.com
Patrick Collison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickcollison
Stanford Graduate School of Business: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu
Stripe: https://www.stripe.com
Vercel: https://www.vercel.com
Where to find Jeanne:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannedewitt
Where to find Brett:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-berson-9986094/
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/brettberson
Where to find First Round Capital:
Website: https://firstround.com/
First Round Review: https://review.firstround.com/
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/firstround
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