CEO

“Hiring is not something you can delegate. It's your job as the CEO until you're a thousand employees.”

“And again, a lot of times companies and founders and, you know, CEOs try to scramble. They're like, okay, wait, what's going on? Maybe we need to put more people on this. Maybe we need to do more marketing or more SEO or bring on some of your web design and al…”

“So this always irritates me that investors are not always aligned with the best interests of their companies and smart CEOs, I think are getting the message now and are a little bit better about pushing back with how they know their businesses should grow.”

“The CEO is oftentimes the chief brand conveyor. So if that means that your CEO is recording the videos instead of your customer service rep, then perhaps for a smaller company, that's a good way to go.”

“When you have a business and the business has a good brand, and then you have like a CEO or business owner that Has a really powerful brand. That's when one plus one is equal to three.”

“And there's been all these studies that CEOs that do have humans, likable, strong brands can attract more talented employees. More employees, more investment opportunity opportunities, more strategic opportunities, both personal and business branding build cre…”

“And to be honest, until a business makes one million plus, I think the most important things that a founder or CMO or CEO has to do is marketing and sales, because without marketing and sales, there is no revenue.”

“It is worth in those times, like kind of remembering, this is still your company. You are still in charge. That just because someone came in and gave you some money and is your boss in the sense that the CEO reports to the board, they're not your boss in the s…”

“My encouragement to any CEO is look, it's not Hollywood. You're trying to make a connection and invite them in and create that, that rapport and trust. You don't have to be some dynamo on camera and you don't have to do every video either.”

“Gen Z follows probably more than any other generation ever has before. Like, fifteen-year-olds are following CEOs of companies to hold them accountable and following them also from brands they love to make sure that they're putting their dollars and their hear…”

“The way I look at it is that the CEO builds Machines. Ok, so these machines are actually teams. So you get a manager for marketing, for product, for R&D, for back-end, for front-end for operations, for finance, for whatever. And then this person, this manager …”

“The thing about a scrum team is everybody's equal, but this, you know, on his scrum teams, when he acts as a team member, he's like a unicorn and everybody else is a quarter horse. So that is, that doesn't feel that great to the quarter horses.”

“My job as a CEO or a senior leader or chairman of the company is to hit a mark. Just like, you know, as a podcast, that's your job. Everybody in the business's job is to make sure I hit that mark. All right. And all the things leading up to it, they should be …”

“I am not in the operations, the sales, the dev design. I'm the CEO. I'm in charge of the vision of the company. And I'm in charge of making sure the company has the funds to keep growing. That's it. I'm there to help my COO, my CFO Answer questions and take ca…”

“Realizing that you are not the company. You're just an employee of it, right? If you, if your true goal is to be successful, it's that I want to just walk away, replace myself and get paid because I own the company, right? Like a board member, like a heavy inv…”

“You need an operations person, you need a money person, and you need a salesperson. If you have those three things, then you can truly be a CEO and the team will start being built underneath you.”

“And we see from research that it's success one out of two. It's like flipping a coin.”

“I would be surprised if most successful entrepreneurs or business or CEOs have not seen a therapist or a psychiatrist at some point in their life. I'd be shocked. But I, the number of people who actually talk about it is probably like a fraction of one percent…”

“Honestly, I haven't really seen AI be implemented in any one business to a large enough extent that it actually had the ability to tank a company, but I think it's something that we will be able to see coming in the future. I think possibly it will come with p…”

“CEOs, if they are not intentionally creating problems for their organization to solve, they should be fired or retrained immediately.”

“A lot of companies who are starting in startups or, you know, founders who start their business, they just put CEO as a title on their, you know, resume or on their business card because they're the owner of the company. But in reality, there are specific job …”

“One of my co-founders is still the CEO today and he's cut out for it. He's a great entrepreneur. He was originally our CTO. He's technical. He's commercial. He's, You know, builds the right culture. And I really admire that. And, you know, in all honesty, and …”

“I would say at the end of the day, I would say the CEO is the harder role primarily because they're carrying the risk, right? It's their business. It's their company. At the end of the day, they're responsible for the growth, the scale, the vision. They own th…”