#302: Varun Krishna, CEO, Rocket Companies – Culture is rooted in behavior, not words

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of How Leaders Lead with David Novak. Today on the show we have Varun Krishna. He's the CEO of Rocket, and before Rocket, he's held leadership roles at Microsoft, Groupon, PayPal, and Intuit. Today at Rocket, he's transforming one of America's most iconic financial companies, and he's doing it all without losing the culture that's made it so successful. In this conversation, you'll learn how Varun thinks about culture and how you too can nurture your culture so that it drives the success of your business. Enjoy this conversation with David and Varoon and I'll see you at the end of the episode. You know, I I've been doing a little bit of research on you and I understand just a couple months ago.

You skipped a town hall meeting and took your leadership team to the pickleball courts instead. You know First things first, how's your pickleball game? You know, I I think um It's always in need of improvement would probably be the best answer. I I'd never played pickleball until like

December of last year. And I went out with a couple of friends and started playing And I really liked it. Wasn't very good at it. But that wasn't an excuse to just start playing, and so I'm I'm probably like a mediocre player, but really like the game.

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