Moonshot 7

I listened to the Chairman and CEO of Snowflake, Frank Slootman, in the 'This week in Startups' podcast and was immediately intrigued by him.  Maybe it is the immigrant in me, maybe I share some of the ideals he shared in the podcast, but his straight talk connected to me. And many of the ideas he shared was right out of what has been in my mind for a long time I immediately put his book AMP IT UP on hold with my local library. I support my local library, but that is a totally different podcast. And got it within a few days.  The book's title is:  AMP IT UP.  Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity. Frank Slootman was the previous CEO of disk storage company, Data Domain, that was acquired by EMC and now part of Dell Technologies. He was then the CEO of the service management SaaS company, ServiceNow, taking it to a $100B market value. Slootman is now the Chairman and CEO of the Data Cloud company, Snowflake, hover...

My all time favorite book is Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning. This book was recommended to me by a friend many years ago and he also gave me a copy to read. Since then I have recommended this book to almost anyone who would ask me for a book recommendation. I also noticed that this is one of the highly rated and most recommended books in many blog posts and forums on platforms like Medium and Substack. This book is the author's true life experience from the most difficult chapter in his life. This book does not fall in the category of business or leadership or fiction. Though it is biographical, it is a portion of the author's life.  The author wrote this book while in the concentration camps during World War II. While we all have ups and downs in life, and I have faced some serious hardships myself, nothing compares to the author's experience in this book. He wrote this for his own journaling and hid it while in the camps, most of it was destroyed and he h...