professional CEO

also referred to as: professional ceos

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2025 by Eoghan McCabe · across every show →

Everything said about professional CEO, oldest first

Aug 21, 2025 bullish
Opinion
McCabe: Founder-Led Companies Substantially Outperform Professional CEO-Led Ones
“You'll see from time to time, I did this a couple years ago, people will construct these indexes of the performance of companies that are founder-led, and of course, this is a self-serving statement, but it's also true, and surprise, surprise, the founder-led …”
Eoghan McCabe Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 32:39 How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
Sep 11, 2025 negative
Insight
Horowitz: Almost No Professional CEO Can Build the Next Product Like Founders
“Founders, Can get to the next product. And that's something that, you know, almost no professional CEO is able to do. Like there have been rare cases, but very rare.”
Ben Horowitz Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 37:43 $46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
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