I haven't worked for Sam, and expect most people commenting on him haven't either, so they only have his interviews and his public commentary to judge him by. F

I haven't worked for Sam, and expect most people commenting on him haven't either, so they only have his interviews and his public commentary to judge him by. From that commentary he seems extremely ... vanilla? But that is probably good for an exec. I haven't read any of his blogs and thought "wow, how insightful?" - rather, they read similar to press releases I see constantly on LinkedIn. "You have to put something out there" type of stuff. Just doing it to do it, not to share insight. That's my take, anyway, from basically all I've seen of him, and this gives a "not special" vibe, but my gut tells me that's very, very intentional ...