I have no great Jeff Bezos stories or anything like that. I L I got there about 18 months after he left, so we never overlapped. And I joined a company called D E Shaw company, which is best known today as the secret of hedge fund that Jeff Bezos worked for before he started Amazon. And so what I ended up doing instead, when I graduated in the mid nineties is I got into this newfangled thing called the internet. So when I researched the economics of being a writer, I said, this sucks. And during the time I was growing up, I always wanted to be a writer, but I also researched things.
Product design engineering and creative writing. And then I came up further up the coast to Stanford, to do my undergrad work, where I didn't know what I was going to do, but I ended up studying. So about two hours north of where you are right now, Dawn. So I'll give you the quick version because the long version could take all the time we have, but I grew up in Southern California in Santa Monica. Can you tell listeners just a little bit about yourself and your background, what brought you to getting started with writing a book books But before we do that, as I was saying before, we got into the show as well, Chris, I think you're a really interesting guy. And so with that yeah, so I just look forward to. For anybody that notices anything that's different about the show I guarantee you it's because I'm on the road. So learning to podcast while on the road is a completely different. I know that you are on the road, so I appreciate your taking time out of your vacation schedule to make this Again, so anyway, it's such a pleasure to be here. What does that mean? And with the mountains about, of course it's mile high in Colorado, right? And, I finally just realized this whole time I was looking into thinking 50 to 80. Chris Yeh: Thank you Don such a pleasure to be here. And so with that, I just wanted to welcome my guests, Chris. And whenever I read this book, I thought it was a tremendous resource. Companies manage complexity and increased performance all with the sort of thought process of helping them scale. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Don Davis and I am a consultant in life sciences. A little bit further into this explanation of what is Blitzscaling and what are we doing here with regards to Blitzscaling? What are some options that people should consider? When do you start? When do you stop and things like that in the industry? So this will be a fabulous conversation with And so our guests today actually is going to take. And today I, so I just wanted to open up just a little bit because I believe that there's a tremendous opportunity for life science companies to leverage lessons learned from the book Blitzscaling. Don Davis PhD, MBA: Welcome to life science success podcast.
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