Wes Kao is a Co-Founder of Maven, a platform that enables anyone to build a cohort-based course and deliver an incredible student experience at scale. Prior to founding Maven, Wes co-founded the altMBA, where she designed the program’s coaching system, grew the community from zero to 550 cities in 45 countries in three years, and built a team of 40 people. Wes is a thought leader in building cohort-based courses and frequently writes about marketing, online courses, and rigorous thinking on her blog.

In this episode we spoke with Wes about the following:

• Choosing to play games you can win by turning features into bugs
  
• The mental load created by the narrow range of motion Asian Americans, women, and other minorities are afforded
  
• Learning to be comfortable taking up space and embracing productive conflict in the workplace

Episode resources:

• Wes's Twitter: https://twitter.com/wes_kao
• Wes's website: https://www.weskao.com/

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