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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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Karma.com – Spread the Love
Tweet Off on another quest, this one is to build a business based on karmic goodness. In a sense, it’s about taking the positive energy that consumers feel about companies, brands and cool stuff and bottling it up into little power-packs of goodness that can be released as reviews, ratings, referrals and deep brand engagement. [...]
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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 [...]
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In The Community
Tweet The Freedom Family is over 500 employees strong and many of us have families of our own. We understand the responsibility of community involvement and strive to make a positive impact on each and every one of our customers as well as the communities where we work and live. Since our early days we [...]
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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 [...]
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