Don't Be a Jerk

Bob Sutton has spent twenty years being asked to prove that decency pays. He can do it: the productivity data, the health data, the turnover math, all of it. He mostly refuses to. His actual argument is harder to shrug...

Charlie Munger said "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." Dr. Amy Gershkoff Bolles has spent an entire career proving it from the inside. She built the media operation for Obama's 2012 campaign, served...

It's harder to place a 16-year-old intern than a $200,000 software engineer. Alex Funkhouser learned that the hard way: his firm SherlockTalent places senior engineers for a living, but when he volunteered to find...

Chad Bernstein showed up at a juvenile detention center with his band, ready to play, and the guards stopped him at the door. The guitar strings, they said, could be used as weapons. So he walked in empty-handed, into a...

Most foundations write a check and walk away. Carolina Jayaram does the opposite. As founding CEO of The Elevate Prize Foundation, she gives changemakers $300,000 and then carves $50,000 of it out for the leader, not...

A clip from Don't Be a Jerk went viral for the wrong reasons. It was a vulnerable story: Healey's friend Danh Trang, a little person, recounting how a CEO once used a slur and how Danh responded with grace instead of...

Kevin Kissi spent years at Microsoft leading teams that shipped software to hundreds of millions of people. Then he walked away to build Zof AI with no institutional funding, betting on one idea most of the industry...

<p>Kevin Kissi spent years at Microsoft leading teams that shipped software to hundreds of millions of people. Then he walked away to build Zof AI with no institutional funding, betting on one idea most of the industry...

<p>Most people think selling is about the pitch. Kalina Bryant built $9 million in six months doing the opposite through relationships, built so well that the customers came to her. As she puts it, once you learn the...

<p>Paul Bakaus started coding at 11, sold his first company to Zynga, and spent years at Google working on Search, Chrome, and ultimately as their first head of creator relations with a focus on bringing creators back...

<p>Blake Hudelson is my co-founder at BoomPop (and we probably spend more time with each other than we do with our wives). We met at a startup studio in San Francisco six years ago. I proposed we try three companies...

<p>Danh Trang was standing near the finish line when the 2013 Boston Marathon bombs went off. He was watching friends and family. He came back the following year and ran it. At 4'2", in 5:36. Raised $14,000 for Little...

<p>What happens when a prosecutor walks into a prison, sits across from someone she could have sent there, and realizes she can't say she wouldn't have done the same thing in their shoes?</p><p><br></p><p>That's the...

<p>What separates the people everyone wants to be around from the people who quietly drive others away?</p><p><br /></p><p>In this solo episode, Healey Cypher breaks down the 7 behaviors that make someone genuinely...

<p>Brianne Kimmel is the founder and managing partner of Worklife Ventures, a $45M early-stage venture firm backed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Yuan. Her portfolio includes Deel, Supabase, Public, and Metronome (zero to...