Best of Outlier Academy 20 Minute Playbook: Vivek Sodera of Superhuman

“I'm a big believer that a startup, at the end of the day, is a series of experiments to unlock some type of learning or user psychology.” – Vivek Sodera
Vivek Sodera (@vsodera) is Co-Founder of Superhuman, a platform striving to be the fastest email experience in the world. He is also an investor, with a portfolio of companies including Framework, UtilizeCore, Rewatch, Bunches, and Playbook. He previously co-founded Airseed and LiveRamp, though he started his career in nuclear engineering.
Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/vivek-sodera1-outlier-academy-show-notes 
Chapters in this interview:

Vivek’s background and road to entrepreneurship

On early failure and learnings as a CEO

Vivek’s connection with Rahul Vohra and Superhuman

The many roles of the non-CEO co-founder

The difficulty of the startup environment

Advice for entrepreneurs

Empathy and the CEO role

Building an amazing team

Failure is life’s greatest teacher

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“I'm a big believer that a startup, at the end of the day, is a series of experiments to unlock some type of learning or user psychology.” – Vivek Sodera

Vivek Sodera (@vsodera) is Co-Founder of Superhuman, a platform striving to be the fastest email experience in the world. He is also an investor, with a portfolio of companies including Framework, UtilizeCore, Rewatch, Bunches, and Playbook. He previously co-founded Airseed and LiveRamp, though he started his career in nuclear engineering.

Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/vivek-sodera1-outlier-academy-show-notes 

Chapters in this interview:

Vivek’s background and road to entrepreneurship
On early failure and learnings as a CEO
Vivek’s connection with Rahul Vohra and Superhuman
The many roles of the non-CEO co-founder
The difficulty of the startup environment
Advice for entrepreneurs
Empathy and the CEO role
Building an amazing team
Failure is life’s greatest teacher

Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week.

Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy.

If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

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