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Chris Hillabrant

Chris Hillabrant

Aug 9, 2026

1:15
Let's start out with what's been the biggest challenge you've faced that brought out the best in leadership in you and your team?
1:24
The one that stands out for me the most was my experience around September 11th.
1:30
So imagine this, here I am, I'm still fairly early in my career.
1:35
I'm a director at T-Mobile predecessor at the time of VoiceStream.
1:40
We had just bought the company OmniPoint that was based in New York.
1:44
The CTO, Tim Wong, who was one of the folks that helped hire me into T-Mobile, looked for volunteers that wanted to go to New York as we were integrating this new company.
1:54
And so I was living with my wife, who was about eight, nine months pregnant in Austin, Texas.

19 MINS LATER

20:39
When was the time every option in front of you seemed like a bad one? You had to make a call and how did you decide and what'd you learn from those consequences?

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