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Fireside Chat w/ Claire Hughes Johnson and Elad Gil

2023-05-18 · 14:58 UTC ·Elad Gil ·1 min read

Brief

Elad Gil and Claire Hughes Johnson conducted a recorded fireside chat drawing on decades of executive experience at Stripe, Google, and other companies. They review operational lessons from scaling Stripe (from under 200 to over 8,000 employees), contrast leading versus managing, present tactics from Claire’s new book Scaling People, and discuss steering teams through economic uncertainty.

Why it matters

Claire Hughes Johnson served as Stripe's COO from 2014–2021 and helped scale the company from fewer than 200 employees to more than 8,000.

Key details

  • Elad Gil authored High Growth Handbook (about 80,000 copies sold) and has advised/worked with Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square.
  • The fireside chat focused on the difference between leading and managing, tactics for scaling people (Claire's new book Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building), and leading teams through economic uncertainty.
Source evidence

​Hear from Elad Gil and Claire Hughes Johnson about their decades of experience as executives and advisors for tech companies like Stripe, Twitter, and Google during high growth periods. Discussion topics will include:

​Growing Stripe: 200 to 7,000 people (!)

​How to lead & manage (and what's the difference?)

​Leading teams through periods of economic uncertainty

​Claire’s new book Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

​Streaming link: https://youtube.com/live/cY2EmZjidRw?feature=share

​Claire Hughes Johnson is a corporate officer and advisor at Stripe. Previously, she was chief operating officer at Stripe from 2014 to 2021, helping the company grow from fewer than 200 employees to more than 8,000. Prior to Stripe, she spent 10 years at Google leading business teams, including overseeing aspects of Gmail, Google Apps, and consumer operations, as well as serving as a vice president for AdWords, Google Offers, and Google’s self-driving car project. She serves on the boards of Ameresco, the Atlantic, Aurora Innovation, and HubSpot, and is a trustee and current board president of Milton Academy.

​Elad Gil is an executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor who has worked with companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Elad authored the first and bestselling Stripe Press book—High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People—with 80,000 copies sold.

Hosts
Cynthia Gildea
Elad Gil

Contact

Channel: Elad Gil
Published: 2023-05-18
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2EmZjidRw