Co-founder & CEO ZoomInfo, Henry Schuck: This Job Is Not Supposed to Be Fun

Guest: Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo In this episode, we cover: Being emotionally vulnerable as a leader, and the limits of Henry’s openness (02:46); What his single immigrant mother taught him about hard work (08:54); The competitor to which Henry tried to sell DiscoverOrg — before beating and buying them instead (16:10); The relief of taking ZoomInfo public after years of making promises to employees (19:42); Getting passed over by venture capitalists, and why Henry sold half of the business to a private equity firm (27:40); Learning how to work with a board of directors, and Henry’s overwhelming desire to not lose (32:11); The “existential threat” to the business that gave Henry a panic attack (41:27); Going public during the darkest days of COVID (48:34); Why Henry writes a memo to his executive team every year, pretending to be a new CEO (55:29); Being happy, present, and maintaining discipline between work and personal life (58:31)