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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q guess, when did you first, you know, a company was, you know, I think you told me historically in 2014, you break 240,000 bucks in ARR, right? In 2018, you break three point, you know, probably don't even remember the 3.1 million in 2018, four million in 2019. The business is growing. So when did you start going, you know what, maybe I'm not the guy to lead this thing.
A Uh, it was probably two years ago I started having the thoughts, but didn't really Decide to do this until last year, but we crossed five million in revenue in 20, uh, 20, 20, right before COVID hit, and, uh, we're at 40 people, and I was already starting to realize that I was, uh, kind of a little, a little bit, uh, struggling as CEO, because, like, I, I'm really good with a small team going from zero to one, but as a team scales, there's just a lot of things you have to do to, to operate a business and lead, and, um, You know, a lot of things just didn't come as intuitive to me at that scale. We scaled back a little bit after COVID hit. And, um, got down to 25 people and felt a lot more comfortable there. Uh, but as we've really got our growth, uh, clicking over the past year, we're, you know, we're, we're hiring like crazy right now. And I've realized, you know, pretty soon I'm going to be, uh, not the CEO I would hire to run the business through this next phase. So that's why I decided to step back and hire somebody better than me to, to help scale the business from here.
AI assessment note: “it was probably two years ago I started having the thoughts”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So step one is you stop ignoring that like little seed in the back of your head and you're like, I gotta do something about this. I've been thinking about now for 16 months. What's the step after that? Do you write something? Do you do something with the board? What's step two?
A Uh, the first thing I did was talk to the board, even before I had decided this, I started talking with them, and they're good about asking tough questions to me, and they were like, do you really want to be CEO for the next, for this, like, next phase, and, um, I thought for a second, and probably 30 seconds of silence, and then I said no, uh, then there was, uh, yeah, that day we decided, all right, well, let's go hire somebody amazing, and, It took 11 months to find our new CEO. So we hired a recruiter. They really helped us scour our own networks and networks outside of Um, people we already knew. And, um, it took a while. Probably half the time was figuring out the exact profile of what we were looking for. Um, but we definitely found the right person.
AI assessment note: “the first thing I did was talk to the board”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q guess, when did you first, you know, a company was, you know, I think you told me historically in 2014, you break 240,000 bucks in ARR, right? In 2018, you break three point, you know, probably don't even remember the 3.1 million in 2018, four million in 2019. The business is growing. So when did you start going, you know what, maybe I'm not the guy to lead this thing.
A Uh, it was probably two years ago I started having the thoughts, but didn't really Decide to do this until last year, but we crossed five million in revenue in 20, uh, 20, 20, right before COVID hit, and, uh, we're at 40 people, and I was already starting to realize that I was, uh, kind of a little, a little bit, uh, struggling as CEO, because, like, I, I'm really good with a small team going from zero to one, but as a team scales, there's just a lot of things you have to do to, to operate a business and lead, and, um, You know, a lot of things just didn't come as intuitive to me at that scale. We scaled back a little bit after COVID hit. And, um, got down to 25 people and felt a lot more comfortable there. Uh, but as we've really got our growth, uh, clicking over the past year, we're, you know, we're, we're hiring like crazy right now. And I've realized, you know, pretty soon I'm going to be, uh, not the CEO I would hire to run the business through this next phase. So that's why I decided to step back and hire somebody better than me to, to help scale the business from here.
AI assessment note: “it was probably two years ago I started having the thoughts”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So step one is you stop ignoring that like little seed in the back of your head and you're like, I gotta do something about this. I've been thinking about now for 16 months. What's the step after that? Do you write something? Do you do something with the board? What's step two?
A Uh, the first thing I did was talk to the board, even before I had decided this, I started talking with them, and they're good about asking tough questions to me, and they were like, do you really want to be CEO for the next, for this, like, next phase, and, um, I thought for a second, and probably 30 seconds of silence, and then I said no, uh, then there was, uh, yeah, that day we decided, all right, well, let's go hire somebody amazing, and, It took 11 months to find our new CEO. So we hired a recruiter. They really helped us scour our own networks and networks outside of Um, people we already knew. And, um, it took a while. Probably half the time was figuring out the exact profile of what we were looking for. Um, but we definitely found the right person.
AI assessment note: “the first thing I did was talk to the board”
