๐ Top 10 Business Podcasts | Feb 2023
Discover the top 10 business podcasts featured in February 2023.
All episodes are curated by me, Adam Thornhill. I live and breathe business podcastsย and take into account the most upvoted episodes on Podup.
Here's the full Spotify playlist to make your life easier.
Click the links below to read episode roundups. You can listen to the ones that you find interesting and upvote your favorites.
#1ย -ย Matt Mochary - The coach behind Sam Altman, Naval, and Brian Armstrong
Matt Mochary shares his insights on why CEOs need a manager and how a coach can fill that role. Drawing on his years of experience coaching the best of the best, Matt emphasizes the value of accountability, guidance, and challenging yourself to take the difficult path.
#2ย -ย Former Stripe leader Brie Wolfson explains how culture evolves over time
A decade or so ago, companies like Google and Amazon dominated the cultural zeitgeist.ย Today, thereโs a newer guard of companies that startups want to model themselves after, with Stripe at the very top of the list.ย Brie peels back the layers into not just the cultural pillars that drove Stripeโs meteoric rise, but also how these showed up in day-to-day work.ย
#3ย -ย Hire managers of one
โEveryone should manage themselves" has been a core principle at 37signals from day one and has continued to be key as the company has expanded. Jason and David explain why thereโs a different way of working, including automated check-ins and how to hire managers of one.
#4ย -ย Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, startup mass extinction event + more
Metaโs stock has skyrocketed.ย Why? Because 2023 is the year of efficiency for Zuckerberg and co. Meta is purging middle management and asking directors to become individual contributors. But, how did they get into such a state in the first place? David Sacks shares pivotal lessons to avoid the same fate.
#5ย -ย Daniel Debow shares how founders should navigate an acquisition
Daniel Debow, a VP at Shopify, reveals all of the moving parts needed to run an M&A process as a startup. Daniel shares tactical adviceย on how to spot clear buying signals and weed out companies that are just โtire kickingโ and how to build meaningful relationships with executives of all types, not just corp dev teams.
#6ย -ย Anna Binder shares why you should get comfortable with feedback
Anna Binder, Head of People at Asana, shares her tactical playbook for creating a culture of feedback for not just low-performers, but high-performers too. Anna also unpacks her methodology of conscious leadership and explains the best leaders always interrogate how the opposite might be true.
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#7ย -ย Rapid fire business ideas, how to buy a public company + more
Suli Ali joins Shaan Puri to talk about new business ideas, how to write an honest LinkedIn profile, rapid fire responses to personal questions, his biggest lessons when selling his business, and so much more.
#8ย -ย This leaked memo from Yahoo explains why big businesses fail
Kipp and Kieran dive deep into how businesses evolve and sometimes fail. Youโll learn the importance of accountability and ownership, why itโs better to be wrong than indecisive, naming the problems in the business to prevent them, and more.
#9ย -ย Data-based businesses and spotting scams with Anand Sanwal
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri chat to Anand Sanwal, CEO and co-founder of CB Insights, about how Anand built his companies, the importance of data, small business niches that are growing, and a few of his favorite opportunities in a post ChatGPT world.
#10 -ย MrBeast: How to capture the attention of billions
MrBeast has captured the attention of the world. His YouTube videos have been viewed 26 billion times. He has more subscribers than the population of Russia. And heโs just 24. Phill Agnew explains how MrBeast did it. He walks through the subtle yet significant psychological tactics MrBeast uses to draw in viewers and turn them into fans. MrBeast is probably the worldโs greatest marketer, tune in to learn why.