Glenn Zweig is a leadership advisor and executive search consultant with Egon Zehnder. He also hosts the very popular podcast The Art of Excellence where he interviews highly accomplished people to better understand what makes a person excellent in what they do. Incredible past guests include: John Mackey (Whole Foods), Al Roker, Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Deepak Chopra, Scott Boras & Steve Case to name a few notables.
Glen began his career at The Walt Disney Company, and then eventually went on to spend 20 years as an entrepreneur in a variety of sectors. He was a founder and executive at several Silicon Valley tech startups, a high-rise real estate developer, and an investor advisor at Goldman Sachs.
This Episode’s Heavy-Hitters:
- It took Glenn 120-130 rejections, multiple maxed-out credit cards, and an empty bank account before he raised his first round of capital for his first company.
- Glenn’s been a part of multiple major market crashes; the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial & housing crises, and got pretty good at pivoting as a result.
- The Art of Excellence Podcast started out originally with the idea of focusing on success, but as Glenn developed the show concept he decided that excellence was less subjective and more valuable a topic to dissect.
- It took Glenn decades and an interview for an assistant role he was hiring for to put the breadth of his success into perspective.
- Glenn tries to cross domains in his show and dig to find people that are hiding behind the scenes; to help his audience learn from unexpected places and keep a strong balance of guests and subject matters.
Check out Glenn's show, The Art of Excellence: https://glennzweig.com/podcast/
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1:37 - The other side of the Mic
2:22 - Glen's Early days/starting from Disney
3:40 - Side Hustles
5:09 - Lessons learned from workplace (Disney)
7:14 - Starting own company
10:03 - Challenges in Fundraising
11:48 - Why startups fail?
13:46 - The thought process
17:38 - Glen's entry into recruiting
21:07 - Biggest takeaway from Mentorship
22:34 - Art of Excellence Podcast
26:08 - Definition of Success
29:47 - Take accountability for failures
31:03 - Best Guest on show
35:05 - Glen's favorite episode
37:18 - Secret to book a great guest
40:01 - Dream Guest
40:59 - Go-to Joke
44:00 - Greatest Piece of Advice
44:27 - Define Excellence
45:20 - Glen's North Star