What does it mean to own risk instead of advising on it? Ben Jacobs, General Manager of Legal for Strategic Growth & Development at Xero and President of the In-House Lawyers Association of New Zealand (ILANZ), joins Cecilia Ziniti to share how his views on in-house practice transformed, from seeing it as a “backup plan” to realizing it’s one of the most impactful roles in business. Ben leads global M&A and legal strategy at one of the world’s most innovative tech companies. In this e...
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What does it mean to own risk instead of advising on it? Ben Jacobs, General Manager of Legal for Strategic Growth & Development at Xero and President of the In-House Lawyers Association of New Zealand (ILANZ), joins Cecilia Ziniti to share how his views on in-house practice transformed, from seeing it as a “backup plan” to realizing it’s one of the most impactful roles in business. Ben leads global M&A and legal strategy at one of the world’s most innovative tech companies. In this e...
Original by Design: Holly Hogan on AI Guardrails and Leading with Authenticity
CZ and Friends
45 minutes
3 weeks ago
Original by Design: Holly Hogan on AI Guardrails and Leading with Authenticity
Holly Hogan has built her career leading through change, from nearly a decade scaling Automattic (WordPress.com, Tumblr, Day One) to her new role as General Counsel at Deepgram, a frontier voice AI company. In this episode, she shares how to create AI guardrails that enable innovation, why “clear prompting reflects clear thinking,” and how small language shifts can transform how legal teams work and are perceived. You’ll hear: – What it means to be a “GC-in-Residence” at Mayer Brown and why f...
CZ and Friends
What does it mean to own risk instead of advising on it? Ben Jacobs, General Manager of Legal for Strategic Growth & Development at Xero and President of the In-House Lawyers Association of New Zealand (ILANZ), joins Cecilia Ziniti to share how his views on in-house practice transformed, from seeing it as a “backup plan” to realizing it’s one of the most impactful roles in business. Ben leads global M&A and legal strategy at one of the world’s most innovative tech companies. In this e...
