When you’re leading 20,000 people at the world’s largest cybersecurity company, every problem that reaches your desk is already hard. So how do you handle the pressure?
Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks, shares how he shifted from stress mode to fixed mode—and why normalizing pressure is essential for making decisions that stick.
In this clip:
→ How to normalize pressure instead of letting it paralyze you
→ The mental shift from stress mode to problem-solving mode
→ Why the best decisions often make nobody completely happy
→ How to make choices that protect long-term aspirations and principles
This is just one insight from our 100th episode conversation.
Watch the full episode to hear Nikesh break down:
Why security becomes an afterthought during innovation (and what to do about it)
The 3-part framework that separates winners from losers during tech inflection points
How "deep laziness" drives first-principles thinking
Why AI will require 3-5x more enterprise data consumption
The architectural shift that reduced threat detection from 4 days to 1 minute
🎥 Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCyb32Bts2Y
About Nikesh Arora:
Chairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Previously President & COO at SoftBank and Chief Business Officer at Google. Under his leadership, Palo Alto Networks transformed from a $2.7B firewall company to the world’s largest cybersecurity platform.
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