CEO

“I view it as our job to like be a sparring partner and it's lonely being CEO. I was CEO twice is very lonely and you don't get a lot of advice. And when you get advice, most of it is not applicable. And so I view it as our job to have an opinion and to state t…”

“Some VC firms rather you know, take a more active stance and swapping out CEOs if the company's not performing well. But something I learned is like, that's usually, it usually doesn't work out. So, you know, you're really, In with this founder for the long ha…”

“So the company, you know, has a new leadership team most importantly, a new CEO.”

“99% of everything that matters is the CEO. The most important lesson for me over the last 25 years is if you have the right CEO, things that people believe to be impossible, Or very possible, sometimes probable. If you have the wrong CEO, almost nothing else m…”

“I think it's a craft that like requires Like fitness and mental health and like a whole structure around it, you know, figure skating is a craft, being a chess player is a craft, but I also think being a CEO is a craft.”

“When I hear people giving talks about culture, especially when they're currently a CEO, my fake CEO meter goes up, my alarm bells go off, because I'm like, okay, if you're out lecturing about culture to people, I kind of doubt that you're actually doing things…”