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David Kidder

David Kidder

Serial entrepreneur; co-founder & CEO of PreMortem, previously founder of Bionic (acquired by Accenture) and NYT bestselling author.

Nov 5, 2026

15:16
Like, how do you have that discernment?
15:20
Well, one is it's, um, if you suffer, if you suffer from the sin of comparison, um, you're going to suffer the rest of your life, there's always someone who has more or is smarter, more successful, more driven, whatever that is.
15:37
Whatever that more is, more giving, more impactful than you.
15:42
So...
15:44
It's a meta point, which is eventually you realize there is literally no amount of energy that I have that's ever going to exceed someone else's.
15:53
There will always be another person.
15:54
So it's a fool's errand.

29 MINS LATER

44:36
And so how can we scale human development at the pace of that technology is accelerating at in order for us to not implement and integrate our dysregulated nervous systems to be able to, you know, again, be a part of a disaster.
10:15
So, David, how do you think about that when you're going to market or is this just so second nature to you at this point in your career that you're just doing your thing?
10:24
There's a number of questions in there, so I'll try to pull them apart real quick.
10:27
So you have to think through systems.
10:29
So the one plus one equals 10 is because of a lot of relationship history, which I'll talk about last, and then the system's ability to do, to keep those conversations going with momentum.
10:40
And, you know, Grace is more tracking.
10:42
I mean, she's taking and synthesizing probably 30 to 40 meetings a week in the C-suite.
10:49
So I think people really misunderstand or just don't understand the level of commercial intensity it takes to get a company off the grand scale.

25 MINS LATER

35:56
So it's the culture that he's created that allows all of us to really commit ourselves and invest in ourselves as well.

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