CEO

“If you ever take the CEO onto the board, you will be fired. It's just going to happen. You may win, you may lose. Whatever happens in the battle, you will be fired.”

“I just feel like culture is driven by language. I don't know any culture in the world that is not glued together by language, whether it's your family, your religion, there's language, and I think that the CEO of a company is the shaman of that culture, and th…”

“Most often, the shift from the executive job to the CEO job is, you now own the job. Right. Doesn't matter what your board member says. Board member is right, wrong, indifferent, doesn't matter. You own the job. Right.”

“I believe that, as CEO, you always have to bring the core team along during a pivot. You have to make them feel like it was a joint decision. It doesn't have to be completely democratic. In fact, it shouldn't be democratic. But it has to feel democratic.”

“Any CEO worth their salt is starved for argument and debate. So I'm not incredibly surprised by Schmidt's response, because one of the big problems with power is that most people won't argue with you if you're in a powerful position.”

“If you take some years out, five, 10 years out, and you say, okay, how do I decompose the CEO's problem of solving this business problem? Into a set of other jobs of people who are helping the CEO. What is the shape of that long-term problem look like? And tha…”

“The singular rule of CEO life is that the higher up you move in a company, the less you really know what's going on.”

“Going down rabbit holes became data points and context to other moments of going down rabbit holes that allowed me to either bail early, pattern recognition, or triple down on an opportunity, and so, you know, I'm a, I really don't know how a CEO or entreprene…”

“Part of what you're doing as a CEO is you're saying, I'm investing in things now that will pay, that will start bearing fruit three to 10 years from now. You're lucky as a CEO if you get to do one of them. That's part of how you can tell like a re-founder, bec…”

“If you said, well, I could have a CEO, With maybe who's a little less proven, but has the refounding mindset, you know or I can have a CEO who's proven, but doesn't have the refounding mindset. Personally, I would always opt for the refounding mindset, right?”