{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Founder's Mentality: The CEO Sessions","title":"Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare: Protect the Steady State, Disrupt What’s Next","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1671,"description":"When did showing up become optional? \n  \nIn 2009 Michelle Zatlyn co-founded Cloudflare, a tech startup that powers 45% of all Fortune 500 companies through solving problems that were keeping their leaders up at night. The surprising thing is, Michelle had no background in engineering. She developed an expertise through showing up, leveraged her own strengths to build a billion dollar business, and wrote a playbook all founders can learn from in the process. \n  \nJoin host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Michelle as they discuss the importance of solving problems that people care about, how to build teams that thrive off cross-functional collaboration, and how to balance delivery and development agendas throughout moments of hyperscale. \n  \nMichelle’s story highlights the importance of showing up. Not all leaders start off as experts, but they can become one through being in the room where it happens. How can founders push themselves to show up, even at times where they don't initially have the expertise? \n  \nThis is a conversation about balancing delivery with growth, building a team that will drive progress through collaboration, and becoming an expert through showing up in the process. \n \n>>> LISTENER SURVEY: Share your thoughts at https://www.podpolls.com/founder \n \nhttps://www.bain.com/founders-mentality/  \n  \nEPISODE CHAPTERS \n00:00 Introduction \n00:48 No founder has the perfect skillset \n02:31 Finding the right problem to solve \n04:19 Building a customer-led tech company  \n06:42 How Michelle became an expert \n08:15 The importance of showing up \n12:37 Navigating moments of hyperscale \n15:18 Scale demands decentralization \n16:20 Empowering cross-functional collaboration \n17:13 Protect the steady state, disrupt the status quo \n18:30 Balancing delivery and development \n19:35 How Cloudflare delivers and develops \n21:43 Scale changes a founder's role \n22:40 Recruiting for spiky capabilities \n24:39 The Cloudflare way \n26:10 Michelle's playbook \n  \nLINKS \nA...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/z_fJuIs9wnTQC9aW7m19E5B_Ao42oGlwHks757MCKKk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMDg0/Zjk5ZWViM2RlYzRj/ODg5MjY2YmQzMzhh/OTAxOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}