Effective Communication in a Workplace — with Howie Xu (formerly) of TrustPath

Howie Xu was the founder of TrustPath which he then sold to Z Scaler. It’s since grown from 1,000 to 6,000 employees. He’s also a guest lecturer in Product Market Fit at Stanford University Graduate Business School.

Do you run into discrepancies among your founding team?

This is the problem that Howie and I discuss today.

Howie was the founding VP engineer for a startup…. But he had fundamentally different views from the CEO.

For Howie, the reason behind a company's success is that they believe in what they do — and they go for it.

And at this particular startup, he didn’t have that.

Reflecting on it now, the founding team for this startup could have been more united in this respect.

In this episode, Howie shares how 1 piece of advice resulted in him taking a more tactical approach to his communication.

We discuss the concepts of 

• Contextual communication
• Intellectual honesty
• Awareness

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