Shaan Puri: Emmett Shear's Twitch CEO job was just managing executive fires
Shaan Puri · Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich · Aug 26, 2024 · at 55:16
Shaan Puri reflects on his startup being acquired by Twitch and seeing how former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear spent his workdays.
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“His job fundamentally was like putting out fires and, you know, all problems roll up basically. And like, it's the worst problem. Shit rolls uphill. Yeah, shit rolls uphill. Exactly. It's the worst problems that rolled up past your executive team because they would solve a bunch of them, but the ones that they can't really solve cleanly roll up to you. So you get the worst of the worst that roll up to you. And he would sit in a conference room and basically on a, you know, his calendar was managed by somebody else. There's a 30 minute block and another 30 minute block and he's reading memos and he's Doing decisions all day.”
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