How to Stay Organized While Working From Home
Today the Silicon Valley Investors Club is happy to have Laura Gramann Richter, a Professional Organizer and CEO of Pieces into Place LLC in Milwaukee, WI and former Googler, share organizing tips that will help keep you sane and productive while you work from home. You’re working from home – what does that look like? […]
Irrationality | Robert Greene
Robert Greene, an American author known for his books on strategy, power, and seduction, has recently released a pre-recorded video that analyzes the current pandemic of irrational thinking that has swept the US, and the world. If you enjoyed this video please share it! In This Talk, You’ll Learn About: Why human beings have such […]
Interview with Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe
Anne Wojcicki is the Co-Founder and CEO of 23andMe. Her company helps users learn about their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits via at-home genetics test kits and genetic mapping research. In 2007, 23andMe became the first company to offer autosomal DNA testing for ancestry, becoming a pioneer in the field, and developing technology that has lead […]
Make Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
Annie Duke, World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions winner, joined us to talk about her latest book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. We all know about her fantastic poker career, but few us (myself included) knew about her equally impressive academic background. Annie double-majored in English and […]
5 Steps to Success
I recently hosted Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world with $160 Billion under management. Ray joined us to talk about his bestselling book Principles: Life And Work. About the book: “In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, […]
Communication Tips with Celeste Headlee
I recently hosted TED speaker, NPR host, and journalist Celeste Headlee to talk about her newest book We Need To Talk. Her book will teach you how to have better conversations. About the book: In We Need to Talk, Headlee outlines the strategies that have made her a better conversationalist – and offers simple tools that can improve anyone’s communication. […]
Misconceptions about Leadership
I recently hosted author and blogger Eric Barker, who has been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, to talk about his latest book Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong. His talk covers the following topics: Filtered unfiltered leaders Finding your own […]
Ego Is The Enemy
“If Confidence is what is real…ego is what we wish to be true.” – Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday visited Google headquarters for an interview about his thoughts on philosophy, his latest book Ego Is The Enemy, and other topics such as:
Tools of Titans
Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Ferriss at Google. We talked about his podcast, his routines, how he keeps himself mentally and physically healthy, and much more. At the end of the talk he asks Googlers if we would be interested in a book about his podcasts. Tim’s book idea became Tools […]
How to Defeat Your Internal Saboteurs
A few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Stanford Professor Shirzad Chamine, author of the New York Times bestseller Positive Intelligence. His work exposes 10 well-disguised mental saboteurs and shares how to defeat them. I hope you enjoy the talk!
