A CEO's Primary Job Is Sparking Strategic Ideas, Not Direct Execution
Brian Wong · 20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24 · Oct 23, 2015 · at 22:43
Brian Wong, founder and CEO of Kiip, shares his framework on how startup founders should manage their time and delegate tech execution to their team.
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“Making sure that you have some bandwidth as a CEO to keep your head above the water to sort of see what's going on and really understand what you could try doing and knowing that it is part of your job to go out there and think of very strategic ideas that people can then look at and then think of their own ideas and actually helping you execute. Like your job isn't to like do the whole thing and implement the new technology, it's to jog people's thinking into kind of looking at what you're building”
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