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Cohen: Tech company and founder storytelling is often inadequate
“The entertainment world is all about storytelling, and storytelling by companies and founders is not always as good as it needs to be.”
Cohen: CEOs should strictly focus on tasks only they can perform
“If the thing you're doing on your list is something someone else in the company should be doing, you probably shouldn't be doing it. Because your focus as CEO should be on only on the things only you can do.”
Cohen: Theatre wealth is driven by creative IP ownership, not venue operation
“You can make money, but you're never gonna get, make a huge amount of money. The real money comes in the creativity. You know, if you look at, you know, the stars of musicals like Andrew Lloyd Webber and so on, you know, they're billionaires. And rightly so, b…”
Cohen: Founders risk other people's money; artists risk deep public vulnerability
“A founder is taking risk with people's money. An actor or an artist is taking a risk in a very public way about how people will respond to their art and what they're doing on stage or on film or in a gallery.”
Cohen: Indiscretion and badmouthing investors signals how founders run businesses
“And sometimes it can be something like you wouldn't expect, like they don't seem very discreet. You know, they're talking about other investors or they're critical of other people. Sometimes you get a flag like that. You think this isn't going to be for me. An…”
Cohen: Supportive management makes tough feedback far more impactful
“If you are generally Good to people. When you say something directly, they really notice. One is the product of the other. That if your temperament is always be shouty or over aggressive, I think people begin to tune you out a bit. Whereas if you, if you're su…”
Cohen: Granular execution questions keep high-flying founders grounded
“Yeah, I think you've just got to keep bringing people around to focus on execution. That's what it's all about in the end. You know, if you can just ask very, you know, granular, specific questions around execution, provide support, but I think that's the only…”
Cohen: Asking about teenage interests reveals a candidate's underlying business hunger
“I kind of like to know where people, what they were interested in when they were teenagers and did they study university and all that matters, but there's two answers to that. One, the degree is interesting, but if they hadn't, maybe that tells you something e…”