Ada Chen Rekhi
Co-Founder, Notejoy. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Ada Chen Rekhi is an executive coach and the co-founder of Notejoy who helps founders scale alongside their teams. She has over a decade of experience leading teams through rapid transitions, including leadership roles at SurveyMonkey and LinkedIn.
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Everything Ada Chen Rekhi said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
The vast majority of people do not need an executive coach
“My hot take is that for the vast majority of people, they probably do not need a coach.”
Why managers avoid giving appearance feedback to young female employees
“It turns out that in a career context, it's so unsafe for your manager to turn to a young woman on the team and say, here, let me give you feedback on your physical appearance and how it affects your competence and how you're perceived in the workforce, that t…”
Co-founding a company with your spouse has no middle ground
“What I found is that it seems like it either goes really well. Or it goes really badly, and there's kind of no in-between.”
Human executive function peaks at age 30, says Ada Chen Rekhi
“Executive function, which is your ability to make decisions and plans and be thoughtful, peaks at the age of 30.”
Early careers should prioritize hypothesis-driven exploration over exploitation
“And when I think about explore and exploit for early career, it's all about exploration. You really haven't experienced that much, but you're doing it with a thesis. You're doing it kind of with that growth mindset where you have a hypothesis.”
Half of coaching clients hire the first coach they interview
“I talked to over 80 people about their experiences with a coach. I talked including coaches, including founders, including executives, and there's this sort of shocking data point in there where half of people that found their coach literally went with the fir…”
Generous interpretation of feedback is crucial when co-founding with a spouse
“The ability to be really truth seeking and kind of take the most respectful interpretation when you're giving feedback to focus on trying to get to a smart, good outcome that benefits the business. I think that's actually one of the most crucial things that yo…”
Ask candidates about common misconceptions to test self-awareness and reset bias
“What's a common misconception people have about you? And I usually like to throw that in toward the end of the interview, and the reason why I think it's really useful is it's a way for me to kind of reset my bias. I may have had a certain impression about the…”
How to ask for advice without triggering confirmation bias
“A question's good if it's specific, if it solicits rationale, and, you know, it's not biased, right? You don't want to start a question with, here's what I think, because people have this tendency to want to please you or to agree with you.”
Personal values provide an internal scorecard against external status pressures
“It's sort of like this internal scorecard of what really matters to you in your decision-making process, as opposed to the external scorecard of status, money, wealth, how other people perceive you. That, you know, often we feel really pressured by, and so it'…”
Practice uncomfortable skills to distinguish inexperience from genuine dislike
“Eating your vegetables is this really important component of it because it's about how do you identify dislike for something because you're bad at it or you're new to it or you've never done it before compared to genuine dislike where you've done it and you re…”
Up to 80% of podcasts never publish past episode one
“Lenny, I think it's something like, 75 or 80% of podcasts never make it past the first podcast.”
Overcome networking anxiety with the 10-card, back-wall rule
“So I gave myself this rule where I had to go out once a week for a couple months, go to an external event, and I would count out 10 business cards. And the rule was I had to hand out all 10 of those business cards by introducing myself to people that were new …”
Overcome procrastination by working on your top task for just five minutes
“Figure out, maybe the night before, The one thing that you want to get done in your day. And then at the earliest opportunity, just try to give yourself five minutes on it. Just five minutes. And the reason why I say five minutes is that there is sort of this …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ada's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | Co-Founder, Notejoy | 1 | 14 | 33% 1/3 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |