CEO
9 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2017 by Drew Houston · across every show →
Everything said about CEO, oldest first
Feb 23, 2017
Jul 20, 2018
Jocko Willink: Controlling CEOs cannot scale micromanagement from ten to 100 people
“Well, if you've got a CEO that's a good, solid leader, and he likes to control things, with 10 people he can pull it off.
For sure.
With 10 people he can pull it off.
He's a workaholic, he's working 22 hours a day, 20 hours a day, 18 hours a day, he's on, he's…”
Aug 29, 2018
Altman: Startups need an evangelical founder to recruit and succeed wildly
“Another thing that startups need, at least one evangelical founder, usually the CEO. Someone at the startup has got to be the person that is going to recruit, sell the product, talk to the press raise money, and this requires someone who can infect with enthus…”
Oct 18, 2018 positive
Gil: Technologists are often better CEOs for technical products than business founders
“You know, I think if it's a very technical product it's often better to have the technologist in charge. So say that you had a business person and a technologist, because if it's two technologists, I don't know how to differentiate between, you know who they, …”
Oct 18, 2018 positive
Gil: Deciding on a CEO matters more than picking the right person immediately
“I think the most important thing is to resolve it, even if you get it wrong, because you can always correct the wrong thing, but at least you have somebody in charge. I think a lot of founding teams end up with a lot of fights that then slow down the company d…”
Sep 8, 2025 neutral
McGrew: Enterprise implementations fail unless addressing CEO's top five priorities
“If you're not solving one of the top five priorities for the CEO, it's probably not going to work. They probably won't have the energy to persist through the much more challenging route of getting effectively a new piece of the product built in a way that work…”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Fisher: Traditional corporate trust relies on employee whistleblowers checking bad leadership
“One of the core reasons we trust companies today is because they're composed of a diversity of people. You can trust to some extent that if there's reasonable culture at a company, that if the company decides, if the CEO decides to do something bad, that someo…”
Jun 10, 2026 positive