Tobi Lütke: Great CEOs succeed through accurate world models, not resource allocation
Tobi L–tke · Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 3, 2023 · at 21:32
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke discusses leadership philosophies on 20VC with Harry Stebbings, disputing the common adage that great CEOs are primarily resource allocators.
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“I think I think it's a heuristic by which. People can explain to themselves why certain people are great CEOs, but it's not the reason. It's not causal. It's correlated. I think the causal, causality runs by, I think the best CEOs are people who have a more correct model of the world than everyone else”
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