Weiss: CEOs should ask vulnerable questions to coaches, not board members
Scott Weiss · a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board · Jan 2, 2019 · at 42:23
Scott Weiss, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former startup CEO, discusses maintaining external peer networks and executive coaching.
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“I would also recommend that there are things that you don't want to share with board members that you'd want to have a mentor or a CEO coach that you can ask those stupid questions with. So they're, you know, like, I think there's a range of questions that I feel totally comfortable and, you know, want the board members to be on the hook for, but then there's some others that I'm like that where I kind of need to bare my soul a little bit where I think, you know, I don't want them to, I don't want them to think that I'm that weak, you know, like there's a, I have asked those questions to like a CEO coach that I would never ask a board member, you know.”
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