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a16z Podcast: Truth and Humanity in Leadership

Bethany Coates

Posted March 30, 2016

How do you get into tech when you don’t have a tech background? And what special expertise can leaders from other fields — like the military — bring to tech startups?

This Q&A — with Lars Dalgaard interviewed by Bethany Coates (assistant dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business who runs global education and social mission programs that primarily focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership) — covers these topics. As well as what it means to what to bring one’s raw, real self to work, beginning from the interview to working together and sharing feedback later.

The conversation took place before a group of 25 veterans who participated in the Breakline education and hiring program (one week of which was hosted at Andreessen Horowitz) for veterans shifting into careers in the tech industry.

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