CEO

“The CEO's job is very lonely, right? Think about it. Now who can criticize the CEO? Only the board and investors, right? Or maybe the co-founders. No, no junior employees technically can, again, because there may be fear of reprisals.”

“I think when employees see that the founder and the CEO and the CXOs are leading from the top at their part with them, they're more likely to be engaged, right? Versus saying, you know, I'm okay. You're on the other side of the fence and I'm cutting you.”

“I would say CEO is the chief sales officer. You know, I mean, not chief revenue officer. You had to differentiate that too a little bit because I was always talking to customers and giving them a kind of a reason to how to invest with us, basically buy our pro…”

“So all the people who grew up during that time, there are more than hundred people who become CEOs of small, mid-sized, big companies.”

“So right thing would be to hire someone in the outbound, even if it's an outbound STR, but probably report that outbound STR directly to you as a founder, as a CEO. Because new functions do require that hundred percent attention and focus for them to initially…”

“A lot of CEOs outsource their presentation to a junior manager. Don't do that. It's your voice. When somebody else does it, it's not your voice. It's a voice over. A voice over is very different from a voice.”

“Don't get swayed by a CEO who talks rubbish, who makes grand plans, five years you'll be here, 10 years, don't get carried away by that. Because a lot of CEOs promise and don't do anything.”

“One of the biggest sins of a CEO is past forward. You think that the past will repeat itself.”

“If you look at empirical data of mid-sized to large-sized companies, not startups and people who start their own company, about five to seven percent of a batch makes it to CEO.”

“Founders should be maniacal about some arbitrary thing in the product. And never, ever let go of it, because it gives them the perspective on the system that they'll lose the day they give it up.”