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Great Story! I have a question. Why didn't you elevate someone from inside to the CEO position? Seems like a great way to maintain ownership (and take care of
by prakhar897 2y ago
Great Story! I have a question.
Why didn't you elevate someone from inside to the CEO position? Seems like a great way to maintain ownership (and take care of people) while also rewarding the best employees.
- asanwal 2y agoUnfortunately, didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.
- statictype 2y agoWasn’t your dad also a specialist in that sense (the technical founder as you put it)? Great writing, btw.
- asanwal 2y agoThanks. Dad was a specialist on the engineering/science side. He learned and grinded enough over time to become quite dangerous on the business stuff. I guess he'd be what some folks would call T-shaped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
- jlg23 2y agofrom the article: > Option 3 — Find a young, aggressive, ambitious person to run Atlas > [...] > This would have been an amazing opportunity for the right person, but it wasn’t in the cards.