In episode 51 of the Logan Bartlett Show, CEO coach Matt Mochary who coached a number of the most prominent investors and CEOs in Silicon Valley including:

Sam Altman from OpenAI

Brian Armstrong from Coinbase

Vlad from Robinhood

Naval from AngelList

Ivan from Notion

Peter Fenton from Benchmark

Alfred Lin and Pat Grady from Sequoia

Parker Conrad from Rippling

Steve Huffman from Reddit

Max Rohdes from Faire

Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner

Matt and Logan discuss what led to him becoming a CEO coach, his philosophies and tactics for running a company, and what makes him resonate with such a diverse set of CEO personalities.

Matt is also the author of the book, The Great CEO Within written with Alex Macaw.

(0:00) Intro

(1:48) Welcome Matt Mochary

(9:52) Resonating with people of such diverse personality types

(22:08) Fear leads to people making the wrong decision

(24:36) Matt’s Process

(30:30) 4 Zones of Genius

(40:09) CEO Tactics

(46:27) Philosophies

(57:04) Offboarding

(1:10:19) Having a hard conversation

(1:14:16) Boards are the death of every great investor

(1:22:20) Quick hitters

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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