Christopher O’Donnell is the Senior Vice President of Hubspot Product, which he led from start-up to successful publicly traded company. He is a frequent guest lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and has built dozens of web and mobile products. Outside of his day job, Christopher spends his time as songwriter and guitarist for the band The Providers, who release music on a regular basis through their site.
Top Takeaways: The Future of Employment, Storytelling with Hubspot’s Christopher O’Donnell
- Before everything else, it’s about family for me
- I’m the oldest millennial there is
- The timing was perfect for technology and interest
- We need to make our money and do our career quickly, or these kids will take our jobs
- It used to be $20M and 3 years to build a technology product. Now you need a weekend
- It shouldn’t all be Sandhill road and Bay Area, Cambridge and New York that solve all the problems
- We should be optimizing as a race to solve problems
- Future jobs will emphasize storytelling, marketing and selling
- The marketing wave- 1-1 marketing…through storytelling
- Having a coach, getting feedback is necessity to get better as a storyteller
- Feedback is enormously helpful
- Emphasize the human story in illustrating your leadership topic
- People believe in me when I skin my knees and I believe on other people when they skin their knees
- Lucky enough to have people who believe in me
- Being an agent- getting people to maximize their contribution
- An agent looks for the best role for the best player
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson – Dalai Lama
- Say yes to the gigs people call you for
- The seer, the fixer and the runner as leadership roles
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Learning From Leaders:
Current Book: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
Leadership Superpower: Managing like I work for the people on my team
Book Most Often Gifted: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller
Additional Items Mentioned
Christopher’s band: Theproviders.com
Link to learn more: Hubspot.com/jobs
