Greg LaBlanc: "It's Really Hard to be a Good Board Member"

Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein

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(0:00) Intro.

(1:19) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel.

(2:05) Start of interview.

(2:58) Greg's "origin story."

(5:31) His teaching focus.

(8:04) Discussion on startups and venture capital and the era of AI. Behavioral finance and bubbles.

(11:17) Bubbles in private (VC and PE) and public markets.

(15:12) Staying private vs going public fundamentals.

(20:05) The role of governance and advice from directors to CEOs.

(22:43) On growth of private equity.

(28:00) On the rise and importance of AI. Analogy to electricity. *Reference to Paul David's research.

(29:31) On Elon Musk's compensation litigation and the recent Tesla stockholder comp ratification.

(36:13) On the role of directors. "It's really hard to be a good board member." "[Directors] better darn well get comfortable with asking not only tough questions, but dumb questions."

(40:32) On Texas and Delaware's corporate law competition.

(42:04) On the politicization of the boardroom (i.e. ESG) and geopolitics involving China.

(48:11) Books that he recommends reading: The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Pollock and Maitland (1895).

(48:57) His mentors in the area of law.

(50:47) Quotes that he thinks of often or lives his life by.

(51:57) An unusual habit or absurd thing that he loves.

(54:16) About his podcast Unsiloed.

Greg LaBlanc is a Lecturer and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Berkeley, Stanford, HEC Paris and other prestigious institutions. Greg teaches a wide range of subjects, including finance, strategy, law, innovation, data science, and digital transformation. He is also the host of the podcast Unsiloed.

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