While her great experiences illustrate a caring and hard-working person, I still can't forget writeups describing someone who was unable to develop a product st

While her great experiences illustrate a caring and hard-working person, I still can't forget writeups describing someone who was unable to develop a product strategy / roadmap in a timely manner, resulting in a lot of miscommunication and execs left in limbo (see the Forbes article written in early 2015). There's no doubt that it was extremely hard to turn that ship around, so I'm not at all attributing the company's failure to her. But as a product person, at the end of the day, my best experiences with CEOs has never been about whether they've rejuvenated a certain company culture but rather their ability to help provide vision and strategy (among other things). Furthermore: > But I know that, if I’m ever in a position like Marissa’s, I want to be the kind of CEO who answers emails from strangers six or seven levels down from herself at 1 AM on a Sunday morning, even when she has a new baby in the house. I want to be the kind of person who has time to hear people out, even when they’re saying things that hurt me. Honestly, I'm happy when my CEO answers e-mails at reasonable hours and has work/life balance (as much as a CEO can get).