32: Shanee Ben-Zur, Lessons from senior growth leadership

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.<br/>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.<br/><br/>Timestamps:03:20 What do people get wrong about Shanee<br/>5:45 The IPO story from Dropbox from the inside<br/>12:35 Equity: Understand how it works and keep asking until you do<br/>15:45 The brutal reality vs Imagination of senior leadership positions<br/>21:50 Operative vs Management vs Advising, when people stop questioning<br/>24:20 Obstacles and difficulties in an atypical career in tech<br/>32:30 How to learn trusting yourself to be a senior leader<br/>40:40 Bringing growth and measurability into any company and all the difficulty that entails<br/>44:55 You are not talking enough about first principles<br/>48:13 Underestimating how critique and compliments work<br/>51:30 Trends Shanee believes in, efficiency in the long-term vs short-term hacks<br/><br/>Shanee’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbenzur/<br/>Leah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahtharin/Leah on Linkedin / Twitter / Youtube<br/><br/>