The Spikiness Principle: What Executive Search Gets Wrong About Talent and Fit

Podcast: Fit Happens: Why CEOs and Leaders Succeed or Fail · Jason Baumgarten

Opublikowano: 2026-05-28

The investors closest to the best founders have a front-row seat to what great fit really looks like. In this episode of Fit Happens, I sit down with Laela Sturdy, Managing Partner at CapitalG — Alphabet's growth investment fund — and one of the most thoughtful voices on leadership fit I've encountered. Laela has spent 20 years inside Google and Alphabet and 13 years partnering with hyper-growth companies like CrowdStrike, Duolingo, UiPath, and Lovable. She brings a rare investor's lens to the question at the heart of this show: does the right person in the right context actually change outc...