Dharmesh Shah operates as HubSpot CTO with zero direct reports.
Dharmesh Shah · How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah · Jul 12, 2022 · at 25:19
HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah explains his operating structure and meeting rules within a publicly traded company of over 7,000 employees.
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“I have done everything in my In my power to reduce the time I have to spend on things that I'm not good at, right? Which is the things that are kind of non-creative, not a part of that. So I don't have any direct reports, which is unheard of for a company that is, you know, for a founder that has 7000 people in the company, a lot of them on the kind of product and engineering team, which presumably you know, CTO would kind of help manage and lead. I don't do that. And so then the only meetings I go to are where there's some creativity involved. I don't like to go to kind of status things and updates or whatever.”
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