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#197 CEO, Chairman & Founder Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry: No Attachment
Manage episode 426505932 series 2662695
Guest: Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman, and founder of Zscaler
Much of the media coverage of Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry is quick to identify him as the wealthiest Indian-American person, with a net worth of $10.8 billion. But to hear Jay himself tell it, that number has never been very important to him: “My family had no money,” he says of his childhood in India. “I had no attachment for money. There was no feeling of ‘I must buy this, buy this.’ ... And it hasn’t changed a bit.” Perhaps surprisingly, he says not caring about money is one of the big reasons for his financial success: With no attachment to money, “I could take risks.”
In this episode, Jay and Joubin discuss startup “gambling,” Jay’s wife Jyoti, scarcity and risk, wasting time, “bonding walks,” family vacations, self-confidence and self-criticism, gardening, seven-minute aerobics, Marc Andreessen and Netscape, and IBM.
Chapters:
- (01:54) - Selling SecureIT to Verisign
- (06:49) - Jay’s humble beginnings
- (09:12) - The worst way to describe him
- (11:42) - Working harder than ever
- (14:15) - Authenticity and selflessness
- (16:36) - Family time
- (18:53) - Happy childhood
- (21:33) - Setting an example
- (24:48) - Customer meetings
- (27:30) - Conviction and execution
- (31:07) - Do your best
- (33:16) - Turning off your brain
- (38:23) - Getting experience
- (40:17) - Who Zscaler is hiring
- (41:12) - What “grit” means to Jay
Links:
Connect with Jay
Connect with Joubin
Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm
208 episoder
Manage episode 426505932 series 2662695
Guest: Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman, and founder of Zscaler
Much of the media coverage of Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry is quick to identify him as the wealthiest Indian-American person, with a net worth of $10.8 billion. But to hear Jay himself tell it, that number has never been very important to him: “My family had no money,” he says of his childhood in India. “I had no attachment for money. There was no feeling of ‘I must buy this, buy this.’ ... And it hasn’t changed a bit.” Perhaps surprisingly, he says not caring about money is one of the big reasons for his financial success: With no attachment to money, “I could take risks.”
In this episode, Jay and Joubin discuss startup “gambling,” Jay’s wife Jyoti, scarcity and risk, wasting time, “bonding walks,” family vacations, self-confidence and self-criticism, gardening, seven-minute aerobics, Marc Andreessen and Netscape, and IBM.
Chapters:
- (01:54) - Selling SecureIT to Verisign
- (06:49) - Jay’s humble beginnings
- (09:12) - The worst way to describe him
- (11:42) - Working harder than ever
- (14:15) - Authenticity and selflessness
- (16:36) - Family time
- (18:53) - Happy childhood
- (21:33) - Setting an example
- (24:48) - Customer meetings
- (27:30) - Conviction and execution
- (31:07) - Do your best
- (33:16) - Turning off your brain
- (38:23) - Getting experience
- (40:17) - Who Zscaler is hiring
- (41:12) - What “grit” means to Jay
Links:
Connect with Jay
Connect with Joubin
Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm
208 episoder
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