CEO

“The best CEOs of the planet are really thinking about how to make themselves Unemployed for the, I'm like, just unnecessary. Just trying to build the team. And I think that the CEOs who themselves sign every single deal, you know, who themselves come up with a…”

“Mental and emotional illness are, don't make for a good match with the CEO role in a growing company. They are not what the traits that inspire people to give their best.”

“There are many CEOs that I'm very close with just through the show that contacted me several days ago that said they all around the same time, you know, got cease and desist letters from LinkedIn, you know, them just trying to protect their data.”

“You look at Crunchbase you know, you see typically the transitions happen six to seven years in at least the ones you hear about the ones that, you know, the company goes out of business, obviously, you transition into oblivion but typically it is a little bit…”

“It's like I have a I have a thing where if you're a CEO or executive and you're good at golf, it means you're probably not that good of a CEO.”

“You can learn about the risk tolerance because they'll say, well, we're hovering like plus or minus five grand black or red, or someone say plus or -200 grand or 500 grand. You get a sense of the risk level of the CEO by getting what that plus or minus is arou…”

“I don't believe in the myth of CEOs that don't sleep. I think CEOs that don't sleep die and die early, and so I believe in the power of sleep. I think that sleep is when you heal. I think sleep is when your mind recharges, and I believe in getting, you know, a…”

“I find that my job as a CEO is basically to have intense and I guess sometimes pretty tough conversations back to back all day long. And I think if you're not having those tough conversations, you're probably avoiding them.”

“The most successful CEOs I've interviewed are not the ones that have monopolized a space, and they don't even have the best product. What they have done is they've, they have monopolized a single distribution channel, and maybe that's the number one ranking in…”

“Information has never been easier to attain or acquire, but with that is the prerequisite to say, what piece of information am I hearing, and does that apply to my business right now? Cause you can hear somebody talking about what worked for them as a fifty mi…”

“So we're not going around the CEO. We're doing it in lockstep with them in parallel with them. And in fact, in every deal we've done thus far in every transaction we're looking at thus far, frankly, the CEO is our number one champion. And they've actually been…”

“We were targeting at that point in the beginning, it was like founders you know, CEO, CTO. It is mostly that. And then as we sort of continue to grow and scale and expand you know, we went into the HR job title, the idea admins and so on.”

“You kind of appear small when the CEO is the person doing the sales and answering the question.”

“Founders have all of the power, but none of the responsibility or accountability. And so, you know, you can do whatever you want to do, but you're not really responsible to anybody in, in, in, in bootstrap world. You're not accountable to anybody. Except maybe…”

“So I strongly believe company cannot live without CEO. That's for sure. Most companies cannot live without head of sales and CMOS. But probably you can leave without, you know, a CTO. You can hire a CTO.”

“While I have no doubt that there are some CTOs out there that can also build a business, but I am a firm believer that a CTO is a great product technology partner, but the business is built by the CEO.”

“We don't think it should be run by people ops and HR. We think it should be run by the CEO of the company.”

“The reality is a C it's super hard because you can't be completely honest with your employees because, you know, at the end of the day, the buck stops with you. And so, Your board members, you should absolutely see them as a sounding board that you can be tota…”

“Second thing is have a pricing committee. So having a group of people come from products, sales marketing, probably your CEO, who are responsible for price and look at it monthly.”

“Ultimately, the CEO decides go to market strategy. That's my opinion. I think the CEO owns that. You're acting as the CEO's right-hand person to make it come to life.”

“Here's what he says. Here's the thing. You're the founder. You'll always get the credit. That's what I needed to hear. Of course I get to keep the ego part. I get to keep it. Wait a minute. I get to keep that part? Good. Like, what am I doing hiring a VP of sa…”

“A good account manager is like a CEO. You need to know about sales. You need to be able to negotiate with a client. You need to know very well your product because your client is asking, okay, but how do I use this product? How do I generate the right value fr…”