CEO and the CFO - Team Building - hiring and developing talent at startups

What should be the relationship of a CEO with their CFO? Ben Horowitz describes it with a simple metaphor: it's all about who knows the map, who kn... (2019)

Brian Chesky is the founder and CEO of the roughly $85 billion home-sharing business Airbnb. The company has been around for nearly 20 years and ha... (2024)

There is a pattern to the most influential business writing, in The World is Flat league. Especially writing that CEOs seem to like enough to exhor... (2017)

SaaStr, 2017: “For CEOs, taking ownership of marketing rather than just leaving it to the marketing department is imperative for company growth. I... (2017)

My rough rules are: In the very early days, the CEO should be one of the worst paid. Until you have material revenues and/or funding, the CEO shou... (2018)

The Great CEO Within (Formerly: Founder to CEO) How to build a category-killing company from the ground up By Matt Mochary Table of Contents Int... (2018)

At the beginning of Front, my job was to do everything that wasn’t engineering: sales, support, product management, hiring, marketing, etc. We were... (2018)

To CEO or not to CEO? It’s a tortured question for startup founders, and the decision on whether the product founder maintains a CEO title or not i... (2020)

Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups ... (2020)

It’s lonely at the top. It’s even lonelier to be an entrepreneur. But you don’t have to go through this struggle alone. Reid Hoffman on why it’s so... (2020)