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Day 1: Who Should Be CEO? A Checklist
- nostrademons 12y agoIt's interesting how Larry Page fails all but 1 of these criteria, and Steve Jobs fails all but 2. Jan Koum fails all of them. That's not to say they're wrong - they're probably right within the domain of small enterprise-based SaaS companies, where the company lives and dies by its sales ability and there's no fundamental technological breakthrough. But it does highlight the context-dependence of advice: what works for a SaaS firm may be very different for a consumer web startup, which may be very different from a startup built around a fundamental technological breakthrough.
- applecore 12y agoThe assumption underlying these criteria is that you have a B2B, enterprise, and/or SaaS company.