The journey as CEO is a long one. You won’t be able to rely purely on your god-given raw intelligence for the whole trip.
I am here to help you achieve your goals. I am your servant.
There is no way to escape impossible problems on the entrepreneurial journey. Often, the solution lies in Lateral Thinking, changing our perception of the problem.
People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.
Communication is at the root of all business strengths—and weaknesses.
The best way to understand leadership is to watch it happen.
Making good decisions is a secret weapon at Amazon. It can become your superpower as well.
We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
There is no better selling weapon in the whole world than a happy customer talking to a prospect.
The person with the biggest pipeline always wins.
The biggest thing I learned in my time as CEO was how much I had to learn.
ARR, LTV, GTM, churn, positioning, competition, customer satisfaction, valuation. Over the past twenty years, I have been the founder and CEO of two companies where these metrics (and more) were important. I developed and honed my “superpowers” as a CEO to ensure each of these measures was going in the right direction. As a result,
Startups are like a long series of runs. The moment you start running, you encounter obstacles large and small that are designed to surprise you.
A leader’s job is to create the environment and the context where people can actually do the most, accomplish the most, and teams can be the most impactful.
We never plan for a crisis. When we are in the midst of one, it feels like an endless mountain to climb.
