CEO

“Creates a model that a lot of other CEOs I think should and will start to follow. And I think we'll see a lot more of this kind of like Twitter going direct type of activity happening in the years ahead.”

“In the next few quarters, I think CEOs will actually be better equipped to numerically point to why taking Brian's path is the value creating path for shareholders and for stakeholders.”

“Are poorly educated and innumerate. So their level of numeracy to even understand this is pretty poor. And most board directors are equally.”

“If we were on the board of a company that kept missing quarter after quarter, and the CEO said, no, look at all the good things I'm doing, we would probably still fire that CEO. Just because You're like, how do things get worse, right? You just take the chance…”

“Most CEOs work their way up through the corporate ladder. They get into the CEO chair and then they pay themselves huge amounts of money regardless of whether the company succeeds or fails.”

“There are people in China monitoring what certain people in the United States are doing, and the CEO lied under oath to congressional committees about this, and the evidence is now in the public domain.”

“What I found is that early on, especially when you're trying to do something extremely ambitious, like the eighty-ninety team is trying to do, the biggest problem is drift, meaning you just kind of drift away. Everybody just drifts away. They lose an understan…”

“And I haven't met a CEO yet that isn't talking about how do I get my organization moving faster? It's quite frankly less about strategy. It's more about organizational speed.”