Bark Required Its Incoming Pandemic-Era CEO to Commute From Seattle
Matt Meeker · BARK: Matt Meeker · Nov 4, 2024 · at 50:54
Matt Meeker reflects on hiring former Amazon executive Manish Joneja as Bark CEO in September 2020 during the pandemic and immediately prior to a SPAC IPO.
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“And a very good guy that I think we put into difficult spot. You're saying to someone, take on a CEO role. Take it on in the middle of a pandemic. You'll live in Seattle, but you'll commute to New York. That's fun. You won't get the opportunity to meet most of the team or engage with most of them, but take responsibility for a culture. And by the way, we just signed up to do this thing called a SPAC and go public. So now you're going to be a public company CEO.”
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