Ask These Questions If You Want To Become A Leader
00:00:00.000 | Some people discourage questions.
00:00:02.400 | They think that it's annoying.
00:00:04.200 | And I think it's great.
00:00:06.240 | I love when people ask me questions.
00:00:08.940 | I think there's sometimes a stigma in companies where the people that ask
00:00:13.040 | the questions don't know anything.
00:00:14.440 | I think the opposite.
00:00:15.600 | As a matter of fact, the CEO of Wealthfront became the CEO because
00:00:20.860 | he asked such tough questions.
00:00:23.040 | Every tech company typically has a weekly all hands, and there's always one or two
00:00:28.060 | engineers who ask really annoying questions.
00:00:30.560 | And they're annoying because they hit the raw nerve.
00:00:33.760 | There's usually an issue with every decision that a management team makes.
00:00:38.300 | And there's always one or two people who know how to find it.
00:00:43.540 | And David Fortunato was the guy who always found the raw nerve.
00:00:48.560 | And after a year of taking these questions, I made him the CTO.
00:00:54.400 | at 25 and he's now our CEO and he's a much better CEO than I ever was.