Godmother of Silicon Valley: How to Raise a CEO | Esther Wojcicki

Esther Wojcicki is the "Godmother of Silicon Valley." She raised three daughters: Susan, who ran YouTube; Anne, who founded 23andMe; and Janet, a professor and anthropologist. Her parenting advice got me through the hardest parts of new motherhood, and YouTube, which Susan built, is the reason I have a career at all.

In this episode we cover:

• The one rule that decides whether AI makes a kid smarter or just lets them cheat themselves: do the work first, then ask AI to grade it like a teacher
• Why she's against banning phones, social media, or AI for kids, and what she'd teach instead
• TRICK: the five-part system (Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, Kindness) she used to raise three founders, and how to run it on yourself as an adult
• How to rebuild trust in yourself if you were raised to chase everyone else's approval
• The three sentences she told Anne when 23andMe was falling apart
• The billion-dollar bet Susan almost didn't make, the one that became YouTube
• Why she still tells parents to push for college in the AI age
• What she says to every mom who's afraid AI will take her kid's job

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