S2E20: Leah & Shanee Ben-Zur - How to Senior Growth Leadership

Straight from Dropbox, Crunchbase, NVIDIA and Salesforce

Season 2 of the ProducTea! Today with the growth wonder Shanee Ben-Zur, her unconventional career path into senior leadership at top brands like DropBox, NVIDIA, Crunchbase, and Salesforce, and her honest account for what happened to make her what she is today.
A compassionate C-level that says things as they are. We talk about how an IPO feels. Equity, reality, and the perception of senior leadership don’t always line up. And the fastest way how to mess things up when you start to lead people.

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Timestamps:

03:20 What do people get wrong about Shanee

5:45 The IPO story from Dropbox from the inside

12:35 Equity: Understand how it works and keep asking until you do

15:45 The brutal reality vs Imagination of senior leadership positions

21:50 Operative vs Management vs Advising, when people stop questioning

24:20 Obstacles and difficulties in an atypical career in tech

32:30 How to learn trusting yourself to be a senior leader

40:40 Bringing growth and measurability into any company and all the difficulty that entails

44:55 You are not talking enough about first principles

48:13 Underestimating how critique and compliments work

51:30 Trends Shanee believes in, efficiency in the long-term vs short-term hacks

Connect!

Shanee’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbenzur/
Leah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahtharin/