CEOs of 10+ Person Companies Must Stop Signing Every Deal
Hampus Jakobsson · How to Sell For $100m+ · Jan 21, 2016 · at 21:11
Entrepreneur and angel investor Hampus Jakobsson discusses leadership philosophy and his rejection of CEO hero culture.
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“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 product and everything, if the companies post 10 people, they're doing it wrong.”
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