Golf With A Legend

Tweet Anyone know who Annika Sorenstam is? Hint:  she’s bright, wonderful, down to earth and also one of the most successful LPGA golfers of all time. She’s won 89 tournaments, and 10 majors — which is just unbelievable.  She also, maybe more remarkably, got to play some golf with me yesterday. I had a blast and [...]

Trust & Authentic Leadership

Tweet Material from a fun lecture I did this week on “Trust & Authentic Leadership” at UC-Santa Cruz (in my mom’s seminar on “Trust Rules”). It was fun for me and the students were just awesome.

Why coaching a 7 year old’s lacrosse team is a lot like being a CEO

Tweet Put me in Coach! Why coaching a 7 year old lacrosse team is a lot like being a CEO.  Thoughts from the sidelines and corner office from Brad Stroh. I have learned a lot by being a Founder and CEO of a few successful entrepreneurial start-ups.  I have also learned a lot by being a [...]

Closing Lecture on the “Entrepreneurial Path” from Irv Grousbeck at Stanford GSB

Tweet A good friend of mine, Kevin, just embarked on a new venture which reminded me of the anxiety/apprehension and general fear that jumping off the cliff of starting a new venture creates.  Reminiscing of when Andrew and I first launched our own start-up, I remember constantly re-reading the transcription of Irv Grousbeck’s last lecture [...]

Kids’ Lacrosse Tourney – Firehawks take home the Santa Cruz Tourney trophy

Tweet Great day for Brayden and his Firehawks “Grey” teammates, where they won seven straight to win the title in the annual Santa Cruz lacrosse tourney.

Golf with Hoover Fellow and Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers

Tweet Golf at Stanford with Michael Boskin For those who don’t know, Boskin was Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under George HW Bush.  He’s currently a senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute and a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal.  He’s a rock-star in the boring world of economics – so [...]

Zoo

Tweet We took the entire Freedom/Bills team and families (lots of kids came, which was a blast) to the San Francisco Zoo. Super fun day to step back and just appreciate everyone on the home team as friends.  Looking around lunch and talking to so many smiling friends, it made me realize just how lucky [...]

Citibank Board Lunch – Failure of Capitalism

Tweet I went to lunch this week with a Board member of Citibank, (also a former Dean of Stanford Business School). My co-founder Andrew (you’ll hear about him often here, he’s the second smartest guy I’ve ever worked with {first is Jon Meeks who is at TA Associates, but he’s a nut}) and I went [...]