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#113 Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor

2021/6/15
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Sarah Tavel discusses how her study of philosophy, particularly its analytical and logical aspects, has instilled a level of intellectual rigor that significantly benefits her work in venture capital and product management.

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Sarah Tavel has spent the past four years as a general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, after previously serving in the same role with Greylock Partners and as the first-ever product manager at Pinterest. In this episode Shane and Sarah how studying philosophy helped in her career as a venture capitalist, the value of intellectual rigor, her concept of the net-present value of pain, why every strength has a corresponding weakness, where executive boards go wrong, assessing the performance of a CEO, lessons of rapidly scaling at Pinterest, and so much more.

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