Gokul Rajaram serves on the executive board at Doordash and is also a Board Member of Coinbase, Pinterest, Trade Desk and others. Gokul’s career has spanned multiple iconic companies including Facebook, Square, and Google, where he helped build Google AdSense from the ground up. Gokul is viewed by many in his network as the most helpful and humble person they’ve worked with, traits that shone through in our conversation with him.

In this episode we spoke with Gokul about the following:

• His belief in generously offering help, and why it’s actually “selfish to be selfless”
  
• Shifting from a paradigm of solving problems to one of identifying the right problems to solve
  
• Why all good leaders need to be both “in the clouds and in the dirt”, and how his life experiences impacted this view
  

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Episode resources:

• Gokul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/gokulr
  
• Gokul’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gokulrajaram1/
  

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