Twitter is not the sort of cash cow a private equity firm could buy and install some talking head MBA to run. There are still features to be developed. The job of CEO requires product vision.
The hedge fund that wants to get rid of Jack Dorsey as CEO of Twitter should look at the data about what happens to tech companies when their founders are replaced by the sort of people hedge funds choose to run companies.
"The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative, and disobedient." --Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, RIP
The @webflow team of 85 humans spans:
🏙 45 cities
🌎 15 countries
🕙 9 timezones
We didn't plan to build a remote-first company, but it has been really awesome to watch it become one over time. 😍
Here are some lessons we learned along the way: https://t.co/BiwYQtmr74
John has been an insightful contributor writing about Mobile Fueling, its evolution, and its future. There is a lot of room for innovation and competition in a multi-trillion dollar global retail gasoline/diesel business. https://t.co/vo7dZ873Ch
Great article speaking about the future of computation. Thanks @stevesi@stevesi for bringing it to my attention. #startup#ideas - Do this @jeffbcross! @jeffbcross https://t.co/JOEVGCschL https://t.co/UtdIahPRsw
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which they have overcome."
-Booker T. Washington
Extra props to my Mom, Frederick Douglas, Henry Ford, …https://t.co/zwKfN8hXV8
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Advice to new managers:
1 earn trust by giving it
2 inspire, don’t tell
3 eat lunch with your team
4 show their work matters
5 be a player-coach
6 feedback in private, praise in public
7 in victory, lead from back
8 in crisis, lead from front
9 be the manager you wish you had
Obvious, but worth making explicit: next to many CEOs is their spouse/partner, playing an unpaid board member, HR head, strategy consultant, or exec coach, responsible for 50%+ of success, receiving very little recognition. In my case, it’s much more than 50 — thanks to @nlevchin