Franceschetti: CEOs must retain control over high-impact decisions that can kill the company
Matteo Franceschetti · Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 20, 2023 · at 1:16:30
Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, outlines his decision-making framework based on impact and personal knowledge.
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“If this is a thing that can kill the company and has, I don't know, a legal background, I used to be a lawyer, I'm not gonna delegate the thing, right? And probably if it can kill the company, I'm not gonna delegate that thing, right? I wanna be very, very involved. But if this is a thing that has very minor impact, and I don't even know it well, that is not the good use of my time, and so it falls in the bottom left quadrant, and so I delegate.”
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