EP 51: Matt Mochary (Founder, The Mochary Method) - The Coach Behind Sam Altman, Naval, Brian Armstrong Shares the Mistakes That All CEOs Make

In episode 51 of the Logan Bartlett Show, CEO coach Matt Mochary who coached a number of the most prominent investors and CEOs in Silicon Valley including: Sam Altman from OpenAI Brian Armstrong from Coinbase Vlad from Robinhood Naval from AngelList Ivan from Notion Peter Fenton from Benchmark Alfred Lin and Pat Grady from Sequoia Parker Conrad from Rippling Steve Huffman from Reddit Max Rohdes from Faire Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner Matt and Logan discuss what led to him becoming a CEO coach, his philosophies and tactics for running a company, and what makes him resonate with such a diverse set of CEO personalities. Matt is also the author of the book, The Great CEO Within written with Alex Macaw. (0:00) Intro (1:48) Welcome Matt Mochary (9:52) Resonating with people of such diverse personality types (22:08) Fear leads to people making the wrong decision (24:36) Matt’s Process (30:30) 4 Zones of Genius (40:09) CEO Tactics (46:27) Philosophies (57:04) Offboarding (1:10:19) Having a hard conversation (1:14:16) Boards are the death of every great investor (1:22:20) Quick hitters   Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky  Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir  Executive Producer: Josh Machiz  Music: Griff Lawson    🎙 Listen to the show  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1  Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg    🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1    Follow on Socials  📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow  🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow    About the Show  Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes. Executive Producer: Rashad Assir Producer: Leah Clapper Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky   Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA   🎙 Listen to the show   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-logan-bartlett-show/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg   🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1   Follow on Socials   📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow   About the Show   Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.