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Jordan Harbinger

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first: 2019-06-21
most recent: 2019-06-21
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“Of room in a bed and breakfast, and I was working on bourbon at the time. Was like, I don't think I'm going to ever use this.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You just didn't do it. That phrase is the precursor of many a great entrepreneurial story because many founders have to go up against the kind of received wisdom that says, you just don't do certain things. And if they're lucky, that weary sounding you just didn't do it becomes a vibrant, I've got to go do it.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After months of grueling study, he was finally ready to sit the test that would set him on course for a comfortable life in law.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's Danny Meyer, recounting his former life as a crime fighter of sorts in the rough and tumble of early 80s Gotham. And like many troubled heroes, he was haunted by his past and uncertain of his future.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Linda was convinced that high impact entrepreneurs can be found anywhere, and we might hear from them more often if only they could push through their own kitchen table moment.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So again, people frequently have false dichotomies. That's great to have great work. It's great to have an amazing set of stuff that you've done. That's awesome. And yes, you should have that. But one of the pieces of advice I most often give entrepreneurs is don't just work on the product, work on your go-to-market because they, oh, I build this thing in a corner, no one sees it. And maybe the best thing ever, but no one sees it, so it's never used. That's the problem on the entrepreneurship side. The same parallel is true for individuals, which is you may have done all this great work, but the fact that what's awareness of like what's other people saying about it, what's the way that you present it? What's the way that people can understand it and get to know it? Because by the way, it's a huge world. It's 8 billion people. How do you stand out against 8 billion people? Actually, in fact, that's kind of challenging.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, so I think we live in a networked age, so I actually think everyone needs a network. And whether or not you're a high school student or whether or not you're a massively successful CEO, the whole range you need it. It affects what you learn, right? Because what should you be paying attention to? What should your considerations be about how the world's changing, about what are kind of opportunities and threats and possibilities actually all look like? The best place that comes from is your network. Yes, you can Google search and yes, you can read a lot. And that's nice to do too, but the network helps you learn. clearest way you can say this is that most people when they go through the university experience and go through college experience look you learned a bunch from your classes you learned a bunch from your professors but actually in fact for almost everyone the most you learn was from your peers from the students around you and that continues through life and that's what your network is”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's additional thing I can say, which is one of the things I learned from startups is when I'm operating and what I think of as QuickTime, when I'm confronted with a decision, I say, what would my decision right now be if I had to make the decision right now? I don't get any more data. This is the data I have, this is what the decision would be. Then, because I go, okay, what are the key things that might change my decision? So I need to talk to Jordan. I need to talk to Sarah. I need to talk to, or I need to find out if this is true or not, right? Like this thing. Great. Do I have the time frame and the ability and the cost to go do those things? Okay, let me go get those specific things and then inform this decision”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So saying that's the only thing. So frequently, what I do is I say the way of decisioning is I think of as a two-step decisioning process. But what you go, integrate into this step, what is my changing landscape a possibility on the second step? Not where I'm going to be 20 years from now, but like, how does that landscape change in a way that's really good for me? It's a good fit for my skills, a good fit for my passions, a good fit for what the market needs and opportunities, and do that. So you integrate those two. Now, when you're only doing that, the amount of data is a much more compact set of data.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Smart and analytical like Marissa really make that work well. But for me, I was just looking for the oh, this is the one question that matters. And once I figure out that question, that's the decision. And that's it. And so I think that's important. The other thing that is important is how do you set your goals the right way in terms of how do you evaluate the data within it? And I find that people make very commonly one of two mistakes. It's almost like the Goldilocks mistake in goal setting. So they either go, what's my next step? It's like, what's my passion? What's my next step? I should only evaluate on the next step. And you're like, well, but actually, in fact, you have this whole career and whole life in front of you. If you evaluate only on the next step, you're going to have a problem. Now, on the other hand, they go, well, I want to be a hedge fund manager. Like this is the thing I want to do. Like this is the thing. And this is like, you know, 15 years out. Well, don't you think you're going to learn some things? Don't you think you might change? Don't you think you might be going along this path and realize you have this other great opportunity?”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That I tend to utilize a lot, which is you say, okay, this is first priority, this is second priority, this is third priority. So frequently what I'll do is like, can I make this decision just on first priority, not looking at second or third? Like what would the decision be if it was just on the first priority? Because by the way, then it's only the data around that. It's only the things around that. And if you say, well, this would be the decision, then you go, okay, well, why would I allow that to change for any of the other priorities? If that's really the driving priority, then, you know, okay, maybe that should be the decision. I should tune it a little bit to respect these other interests, these other goals, these other needs, but that should be what I'm going to do. And that's one of the ways to simplify the set of data because you go, what is the really, really key thing? The only thing that I find personally useful about doing the process that is the exhaustive, like here I did the entire table, I did the entire spreadsheet. And some people who are deeply...”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there is almost always too much data, and part of what you have to think about is what are the key things that would change my decision? Not let me integrate all of the information, because then you get overwhelmed with it. And by the way, that overwhelming can actually make you have bad decisions. So I'll share, like, for example, one of the frameworks.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Marissa is well known for her intense use of When she makes the Indeed, it has been the target of much criticism, but what people overlook is that she's not making choices based solely on the data she collects. Each table of data she Builds is like a The higher she builds it, the wider the view. The bigger the splash when she jumps But whether she actually takes that dive or not, that's still based on intuition.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Drew up charts and plotted graphs. They buried their heads in the numbers. After six hours churning data, Marissa looked up to see the sun had set. Her head was spinning, and she felt no closer to a decision.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Solar Comengar, the Googler, who sent that email, was Google employer. Nine He's now senior vice president of U2, now Marissa had another offer, fourteen to choose from. It's the kind of problem most new grads wish they had. How did she decide? Methodically. Marissa enlisted help from Andre Vanier, a fellow Stanford student who is now a VP at Oath.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Remember, this is 1999, the peak of the dot com bubble. Stanford grad students were showered with offers from tech recruiters. Marissa assumed she was just being spammed. She hit delete, or at least she meant to.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Marissa was still a college student, and Google was one of a thousand teeny Silicon Valley startups competing for talent.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“3,000 people who were in better positions have this music idea than I do. And this isn't going to work. I need to change, then you can keep moving and you can keep playing forward. So having a flexible planning framework that accounts for your changes, your changes in your knowledge, and your changes in the way the world, the market is working are all really critical.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you seem nice. I want to be supportive. Yeah, it's great. No, what could go wrong if this fails, why would it fail? And then so you're getting a sense of that because you go, okay, I think I can navigate that stuff. So network, one key component. Another one is, and this is again from my book Startup You, I have this framework called ABZ planning, which is you have a plan A, you have plans B, which is how to think about like, well, if A is not working out, maybe B will work, or maybe B would be a different path, or that kind of thing. And then you have a Z plan, which is it's not working out at all. What's my lifeboat plan? I'm going to row to a different set of Plan A and Plan B's. So having that as a planning framework. And if you can build that planning framework around your particular idea, maybe your passion and so forth, you go, okay, I'm respecting the fact that I'm going to change. I'm going to change. The world's going to change. I'm going to learn new things. I'm going to figure out, oh, yeah.”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So first part is a user network. And what people mostly mistake is they think, well, if I can get to the head of this record label or something else, that would inform me on this question. Usually we don't have access to that. Usually the question is, well, I have some family, I have some friends, I have some people the friends know, I have some people the family knows, that's my network when I'm young. But what you do is you say, well, who are the smartest people that know me that may have a good sense of this, that may be able to connect me with someone that is interesting, that could then give me some sense where I can go, okay, is this a good idea where I have enough of a unique edge? I could pick up some momentum, I could run an experiment with it. And the questions to ask the network. So first is not just ask the people you know, but ask them if they know someone who'd be useful to talk to. Second is the questions you ask them is, which one”
2019-06-21 · Masters of Scale · Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT