Take BIG Bold Career Risks — Ethan Evans & Molly Graham
Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members and The Glue Club members are invited to join this live event with Ethan and Molly discussing taking big bold career risks and The Glue Club.
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The event will be video recorded and shared on Ethan's YouTube channel.
Post-Fireside Chat Conversation: We're piloting a new event format. After the talk, stay for conversation with the community for 30 minutes off the record. Discuss what's top of mind and top learnings. Facilitated by a community member. Not recorded.
Same Zoom link. Just stay on after Ethan & Molly end.
About Molly Graham
For better or worse, I am probably best known for coining the term “Give Away Your Legos” to talk about what it’s like to work inside rapidly scaling companies.
For the past 10 years, I have been the COO/head of operations for multiple organizations including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a philanthropy founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan; Quip, a start-up founded by Bret Taylor that sold to Salesforce for $750m; and Lambda School. I have also served as a board member, advisor, or interim exec at a wide variety of startups in fintech, climate, education, healthcare, and Web3.
Before that, I spent five years at Facebook in multiple different roles doing things like developing Facebook's long-term mobile strategy and building a lot of its early People philosophy and systems (and a hot second at Google, where I started my career in tech).
These days I’m focused on joy and that means I spend most of my time building communities. Most publicly, we are building The Glue Club, a community focused on developing and supporting the strongest operators in the world. I love investing my time, mentorship, and support in the Glue People – the people who hold up the walls and the ceiling in whatever company they’re in, and who make sure that the right thing happens whether it’s in their job description or not.
As you can see, I've spent a lot of time inside startups and scaling companies, and lots of time coaching, mentoring, and advising folks building companies, and there is nothing I love more than talking about what it takes to build and scale a company well, what it takes to be a good manager and leader, and how to navigate the world of tech startups as you think about your career.
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About Ethan Evans
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.
70+ patents.
Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.
Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (read the story).
Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.
Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.
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Check out Ethan's website: https://www.ethanevans.com/
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