Office Hours with Spencer Rascoff
Spencer Rascoff is a New York Times bestselling author who co-founded four tech companies, invested in over 50, and was CEO of Zillow for a decade. His first start-up, Hotwire, sold to Expedia for $685 million, and his second start-up, Zillow, is now a real estate colossus, worth around $10 billion dollars. Now, he’s cofounded dot.LA, a media company covering the cutting-edge LA tech scene. Hear Spencer speak with CEOs, start-up founders, venture capitalists, and prominent thought leaders about how to manage, how to lead, and how to win in business.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 103
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2023
From the Vault: Eric Holder: Former U.S. Attorney General
We revisit our conversation with Eric Holder. Eric knows a thing or two about introspection. In his current role, companies tap the former U.S. Attorney General to ask difficult questions and help bu…
00:27:39 |
Thu 03 May 2018
Cindy Whitehead, CEO and founder, The Pink Ceiling
It’s no wonder Fortune Magazine called Cindy a “tireless force of nature.” She’s the entrepreneur behind the first-ever FDA approved drug to treat decreased libido in women, and she’s built two busin…
00:27:09 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Arianna Huffington: Founder, Thrive Global & Co-Founder, The Huffington Post
Arianna Huffington needs little introduction. The author of 15 books, including best-sellers Thrive and The Sleep Revolution, Arianna has been named to Time Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential Pe…
00:26:36 |
Wed 11 Apr 2018
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Founder & Chairman of theBoardlist
Sukhinder is a serial entrepreneur and longtime technology executive who had stints at both Google and Amazon. In 2015, she founded theBoardlist, a talent marketplace for leaders to find highly quali…
00:23:08 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Satya Nadella: CEO of Microsoft
Companies that transform our lives with one innovation (like Microsoft Windows) often find it difficult to repeat the same feat because everything - from product to revenue to culture - is built on t…
00:30:58 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
Eric Holder: Former U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder knows a thing or two about introspection. In his current role, companies tap the former U.S. Attorney General to ask difficult questions and help businesses improve everything from divers…
00:27:45 |
Thu 09 Nov 2017
Bill Gurley: Venture Capitalist and General Partner at Benchmark
The companies within Bill Gurley's investment portfolio have some clear similarities: great user-generated content, a reliance on the network effect and a "power to the people" mentality, meaning the…
00:27:20 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
Joel Spolsky: CEO of Stack Overflow
As a founding member of several successful companies (Fog Creek, Trello) in the software development space, you could say that Joel Spolsky knows a bit about developers. On his popular online forum, …
00:30:49 |
Fri 16 Jun 2017
John MacFarlane: Co-founder of Sonos
When John MacFarlane and his co-founders started Sonos in 2002, they knew nothing about audio or hardware. They simply had an inspiring mission: Fill every home with music. And they knew that the fut…
00:28:26 |
Fri 02 Jun 2017
Robert Carlock: Emmy Winner & Co-Creator of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Comedy writer and producer Robert Carlock's spectacular career includes writing and producing credits on iconic shows such as "Saturday Night Live," "Friends" and "30 Rock." Most recently he co-creat…
00:30:23 |
Thu 18 May 2017
Sheryl Sandberg: COO of Facebook
Dubbed Silicon Valley's "oddest couple" by The New York Times, together Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg have driven Facebook's astronomical growth and supported one another along the way. The key…
00:17:03 |
Thu 11 May 2017
General David Petraeus
With a storied career that includes leading coalition forces and counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus definitely knows a thing or two about leadership. …
00:26:19 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
Brad Tilden: CEO of Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden is in the midst of his "what's next" agenda following the company's successful acquisition of Virgin America. Acquisitions, no matter how well executed, are almost alw…
00:31:04 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
Kevin Demoff: COO of the Los Angeles Rams
With managing a relocation, a mammoth real estate development and significant leadership changes on the coaching staff, L.A. Rams COO Kevin Demoff has a had a tumultuous couple of years. So how does …
00:26:36 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Brandon Beck: CEO of Riot Games
Gaming is big business - a fact that perhaps no one knows better than Brandon Beck, co-founder and CEO of Riot Games. Riot's League of Legends is an eSports juggernaut and ushered in a new era of com…
00:23:45 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
Jared Grusd: CEO of The Huffington Post
Nearly a year and a half ago, The Huffington Post's legendary founder Arianna Huffington recruited Jared Grusd from his role as head of strategy at Spotify to lead Huff Post as she transitioned to he…
00:25:41 |
Tue 14 Feb 2017
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker
During her 27 years in the private sector, Secretary Penny Pritzker started five companies, led dozens of businesses and served on the boards of big corporations like Hyatt Hotels, LaSalle National B…
00:21:42 |
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Christa Quarles: CEO of OpenTable
About this episode's guest: CEO of OpenTable, which was founded nearly 20 years ago Previously CFO of Playdom, which was acquired by Disney in 2010 Left "armchair quarterbacking" on Wall Street for t…
00:29:48 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
Aaron Levie: CEO of Box
About this episode's guest: Founded Box at age 20 with three friends from high school. Prolific user of social media, with 678,000+ followers. Known for wearing bright-colored sneakers. Topics covere…
00:34:53 |
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Sallie Krawcheck: CEO of Ellevest
With her longstanding Wall Street career (Citigroup, Merrill Lynch) and unique perspective as a woman in a predominantly male industry, Sallie Krawcheck is tackling a question that has mystified inve…
00:28:20 |
Wed 07 Sep 2016
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