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Aleksandr Yampolskiy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

That's what we're focused on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

So one of my favorite business books is...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Behind the Cloud by Mark Benioff about how he created Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

It's a very good book where he talks about the history of Salesforce, many of the tricks that he used to build it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

And that's one of my favorites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Well, I'm a big fan of Elon Musk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

I think that he's a very inspirational guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

He's a very smart guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

I met him a couple of years ago at a Sequoia Capital offsite, and I learned a lot of interesting things just from a casual conversation with him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

When I asked him, how does he know that what he's working on during the day is really making a difference?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

He said to me, at the end of each day, he reverse engineers his day and says, how did I spend my time?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Which meetings did I attend?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Who did I speak to?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Were there things I could have delegated?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Were there things that I shouldn't have been doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

And that was very good advice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

So yeah, Elon Musk is one of my favorites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

So I like to use Evernote.