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This is a recent list of founders ousted by investors: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ousted-founders-ubers-travis-kalanick-steve-jobs-and-jack-dorsey.html ht
by NumberSix 9y ago
This is a recent list of founders ousted by investors:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ousted-founders-ubers-travis-kalanick-steve-jobs-and-jack-dorsey.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ousted-founders-ubers-travis...
Briefly:
Steve Jobs, Apple
Travis Kalanick, Uber
Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Parker Conrad, Zenefits
Andrew Mason, GroupOn
Jerry Yang, Yahoo
This is just a small number of particularly high-profile cases.
- NumberSix 9y agoAlso see this recent article: https://work.qz.com/1125919/we-finally-have-proof-that-visionary-founders-make-the-worst-ceos/ https://work.qz.com/1125919/we-finally-have-proof-that-visio... This is the direct link to the research mentioned in the article: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/AreFounderCEOsGoodManagers.pdf http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/AreFounderCEOsGoodManagers....