Ben Horowitz explains how startup CEOs should think about delegation
âYou only get leverage if the person that you hire can do it better than you can. As long as you feel like youâre better than them at it, youâre just going to keep second guessing them and youâre not going to get any leverage.â
Ben argues that your next hire should always be the person who gets you the most leverage. And he believes CEOs should seek leverage in âall spotsâ:
âAs CEO, you can be the keeper of the vision and quality control over the top, but you canât be the lead engineer forever. Larry Page - as great an engineer as he was - is not an engineer at Google. He just isnât. And he canât work on production products because itâs a full-time job⊠And if Larry canât do it, you canât do it either. I guarantee you. Youâre going to have to give them all up.â
Source: @ECorner (Nov 2014)