Molly Graham
Founder @ Glue Club
Runs Glue Club for startup leaders. Former exec at Facebook, Google, Quip, CZI.
“Molly Graham has worked for some of tech’s most effective leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Bret Taylor. Today she leads Glue Club, a community for leaders navigating rapid scale, growth, and change.”
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Glue Club | Founder | 2022-present |
| Lambda School | COO | ~2020-2022 |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | COO / Head of Operations | ~2018-2020 |
| Quip (acquired by Salesforce) | Head of People & Operations | ~2016-2018 |
| Business & Operations Recruiting Leader | ~2008-2015 |
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“Yeah. I always say I get bored really easily, which is both a strength and probably my greatest weakness. So I like being scared.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“I have a very weird brain that for some odd reason just always thinks in metaphors.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“At Facebook, I got to a place where I was literally giving away my job every three weeks. I was constantly rehiring myself essentially because you have to sort of grow as fast as your company is growi...”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“Somebody called me an influencer and I almost ripped their face off.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“Yeah, man. The most interesting careers are winding and they have starts and stops and failures and successes and control. Anybody that's been through a lot of this stuff, control is usually not the n...”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“I haven't heard that one from you, so clearly I need to listen more.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“And that equation, again, I would say 80% of problems that I see, performance issues. I always start with, "Does this person actually know what you expect of them?" If not, go back to step one. Do you...”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“Like I said, work is about humans and it's the art of organizing humans to get something done and build something that's greater than the sum of its parts and that is an art of the humanness in all of...”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“Everyone's going to see through you. Imposter, imposter, imposter.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“And particularly in this world, the one that's changing as fast as it is, nobody knows. Nobody knows what the answers are in a lot of cases, the war will be won by the people that are good exploring a...”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“Yeah, it strips away. It strips away the emotions.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
“You can never write anything down and you will still have a culture. It will be created through the actions and the decisions that you make and that your founder makes. So that would be a huge one.”
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale