A new podcast sharing leadership lessons from the most successful and beloved leaders in the startup and tech worlds — all of whom are nominated by past direct reports as the best leader they’ve ever worked for.

Before the interview, we sit down with their teams to collect feedback and stories about how guests show up as a leader, which forms the agenda for our interview.

About us

👋🏻 I’m your host Annie Riley. My background is in early-stage Ops and GTM at marketplace startups. I built this show aruond a few goals:

• Be a resource for non-founder startup leaders who want to grow
• Share actionable, trustworthy leadership lessons that listeners can apply immediately
• Elevate leaders who are actually exceptional at building and leading healthy, winning teams (and not just the loudest voices on LinkedIn 🙄)
• Surface real, honest stories that help us all feel less alone and more empowered
• Connect with amazing people, and have fun 🎉

🎧 Join us

Check out the show, and let us know what you think!

You can listen wherever you get podcasts.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-manager-ever/id1772958574

Our guests

Our guests are the most beloved leaders in the startup world — they’re all nominated by past direct reports as the best manager folks have ever worked for.

These leaders bring a track record of success, and know how to build teams that win big, drive results, build trust, and have fun along the way.

They open up their playbooks, challenges, and lessons learned to help others learn from their experience and replicate their success.

💛 We’ve loved learning from them, and hope you will too!

PS - Many of them are hiring!! 👀

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Season 1

Morgane Palomares - VP Marketing, Vercel

Zayd Badwan - VP Enterprise, Uplimit

Brittney Hall - Head of CX, ReMatter

Sean Twersky - Head of Biz Ops, EvenUp

Lauren Werner - COO, ShopShops

Doug Hanna - President & COO, Kustomer

Katie Corder-Paul - COO, levelheaded

Thianh Lu - CPO, Autograph

Sara Romero-Heaps - CPO, Seesaw

Alan D’Souza - Analytics, CreditKarma

Mari Nazary - CEO, App Academy

Namrata Ganatra - Former CTO, Pipe

Amanda Richardson - CEO, CoderPad

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Season 2

Anthony Sottile - VP Success, Freewill

Jully Kim - Technology Excellence, Autodesk

Hank Taylor - Head of Marketing, Laravel

Seif Salama - Product Marketing, Fanatics

Helen Min - Venture Partner, True Ventures

Carol Mahoney - People Ops, Ex-Gainsight

Amit Shah - COO, Virta Health

Luis Duarte - CEO, Amoofy

Liz Ludwig - Co-founder, Takes

Leanna Nazzisi - CX, Victoria Beckham Beauty

Asheesh Birla - Ex-Ripple

Sruthi Lanka - CFO, Public

Lauren Rhode - VP Sales, Webflow

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