CEOs of 1,000-person companies should have at most ten direct reports
Josh Stein · Josh Stein of DFJ: What Makes a Great SaaS CEO · Jul 7, 2017 · at 16:46
DFJ partner Josh Stein discusses executive structure and the shifting responsibilities of a CEO once a company reaches scale.
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“And then a thousand is really interesting, because at a thousand, like if you're interacting From a reporting relationship with more than, I'd say, six to 10 people, you're really probably doing something wrong. Spending most of your time externally, and then most of your time, you know, you probably have not met most of your employees in person, but you are known to them, and you're a beacon to them, and so you're setting that kind of vision and you know, clarity of purpose, but it's really much more about being like a figure as opposed to a person that's, you know, interacting with them directly.”
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