{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Grit","title":"#146 Co-founder & CEO Rubrik, Bipul Sinha: Authenticity Reigns","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4185,"description":"Guest: Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Rubrik\nWhen Bipul Sinha graduated from the Indian Insitute of Technology and came to America to work in tech, his mother told him: Don’t start a company. His ambitious father was a failed pharma entrepreneur, and Bipul was content for most of a decade to hold a steady job at Oracle. But in his early 30s, he began to shed his risk aversion, pursuing a part-time MBA and more difficult jobs, and by the time he co-founded the data security firm Rubrik in 2014, he had gone through an epiphany: “Only make decisions that you truly believe is the right thing to do,” he says. “If you are here, at the moment of truth, you want to succeed or lose based on your own terms, not what others feel.”\nIn this episode, Bipul and Joubin discuss how debate moves business forward, companies as living systems, growing up poor, refusing to compromise, risk aversion, finding your own potential, paying tuition, context matters, psychological safety, and smelling the roses.\nIn this episode, we cover:\nJoubin’s interview with Ali Ghodsi (00:51)\nThe importance of authenticity (02:33)\nExtreme voices (05:10)\nBeing yourself at work (08:14)\nReducing blind spots (11:08)\nTough feedback (13:09)\nLearning entrepreneurship through osmosis (14:41)\nIIT or bust (19:40)\nSetbacks and reorienting (23:35)\nLeaving India for America (26:53)\nFrom Oracle to Blumberg Capital (30:21)\nPrioritizing his own happiness (34:36)\n“This is a career” (37:08)\nDissatisfaction and the next thing (40:37)\nCreating an enduring institution (45:02)\nNo one knows what they’re doing (49:32)\nOpen board meetings (53:39)\nHiring and firing (55:37)\nGood and bad startup advice (57:58)\nWorking forever (01:01:16)\nPositive feedback and empathy (01:04:19)\nWho Rubrik is hiring and what “grit” means to Bipul (01:08:55)\nLinks:\nConnect with BipulTwitter\nLinkedIn\nConnect with JoubinTwitter\nLinkedIn\nEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com \nLearn more about Kleiner Perkins\nThis episode was edited by Eric Johnson from...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jCea5f44KBONhOsyLyht9nXUrj2YBNfA6fc-kgyfWTM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzk3NzAvMTY2Nzg2/MjQyOC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}