Gainey: Board service is like junk food because advisors cannot execute
Mark Gainey · Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath · May 2, 2022 · at 38:05
Mark Gainey, co-founder of Strava and Kana Communications, reflects on his experience serving on corporate boards between his startup ventures.
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“I love to equate being on boards to eating junk food and I'll be the first to attest. I like junk food. Like I will occasionally have it. And so in the moment being at a board, Can feel really good. You're contributing, you're having interesting intellectual conversations, you're thinking through strategy. The only problem is you leave the board meeting. That's like junk food. It's just not that satisfying. At the end of the day, you're not on that team who's going in now executing all these ideas that you discussed.”
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