The Curious Learners
I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world. The Curious Learners is an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started. Looking forward to a long journey together.
The Curious Learners
Gokul Rajaram | Building, Operating and Investing | The Curious Learners Ep. 18
My guest today is Gokul Rajaram. It is hard to find someone who has been as successful in all three of building, operating and investing.
He is known as the 'Godfather of Adsense', having built the foundation of Google's advertising business. He then exited his start-up to Facebook and had an amazing career at Facebook, Square and now at Doordash.
He is also an investor supporting entrepreneurs globally. He sits on the boards of exceptional companies.
Gokul and I had a deep conversation on product, team and company building, investing and of course Blockchain.
- Characteristics of excellent early stage founders
- Areas where founders need help most
- The most important elements in building a product
- Use of different tool sets in marketing
- Maintaining the early-stage culture along the lifetime of a company
- The point at which you know you hit product-market-fit
- The most exciting part of crypto
- Learnings from sitting on boards of exceptional companies
- Gokul's productivity hacks in his daily schedule
Please enjoy my fascinating conversation with Gokul Rajaram.
