Janice Kapner

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346 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

Janice Kapner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Action Catalyst · CLIP: Working With Bill Gates · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I always felt like he would process it all and he would look for the edge cases, you know, where other people may make kind of a linear or even two or three linear paths.

I always felt like he was also then going to look way out here at the fringe of what about and what about and have we contemplated or.

And I'm sure that that's how you come up with the genesis for the ideas that created the company is to be that kind of a thinker.

So with him, you sort of always felt like you were in the presence of just a sheer intellectual calm is the only word.

And even though I again, I saw him when he would get impatient there.

He just he likes to problem solve my interpretation.

I don't know him that well, but my interpretation was he felt like I want I'm going to problem solve and I'm going to stress test everything.

And I'm going to look around all the corners and look at all the chess moves.

And that's how it felt to me.

That would be my read from my, you know, what time I did get to spend in the room with him.

You had I think it was like over 70 percent of employees at the time were developers.

And and so the worship that they have for a bill, you can't replicate that, you know.

The Action Catalyst · Check Your Comms, with Janice Kapner | (Communications, Leadership, Transformation, Business) · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

If you understand the business, if you learn the business, you're never going to be a subject matter expert in everything.

That's too, it's too wide.

You can't go that deep, but you do need to understand the sales team is facing this kind of problem.

The network team or the product development team is facing these kinds of challenges and hurdles.

These guys have these goals.

These people have this goal.

If you don't understand that, I don't know how you can have a intelligent conversation with anybody across the table and have them listen to you.

Thank you so much for having me.

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