The speaker's immediate response to the ambitious story was skepticism: 'that was aspirational' (meaning: no way that's going to happen). The coach replied that the first step was simply to hire a CEO, and that 2008 (a recession) was actually a good time to attract top CEO talent.
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“that there's no way we're going to do that like it it was just so aspirational... aspirational by the way is a euphemism for how the hell we going to do no way that's going to happen it was it was aspirational so he's like well what's the first step first step is hire a CEO”
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Last Lecture Series: “How to Live an Asymmetric Life,” Graham Weaver— Stanford Graduate School of BusinessCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:19:24 PM
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