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...to be a founder. I didn't know I wanted to be a CEO, so I sort of backed into being a CEO.
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...my cofounder, Josh, and just having this recognition that we have our Friday forum where we celebrate all of our wins, and I very rarely make an appearance as a person who has an attributable win. Why do you do that cool if you don't mind me asking?
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...CEO, and I watch my back every day because I knew they could fire me and would. Whereas some founders just act like and sometimes by contractual terms they are, but they act unfireable, and I think it's not good. None of us should feel like we're inv
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...been a decade. Cofounder had left and moved on. Like, we we've built a a category and an enduring business. But as I looked at what the company really needs, like in the CEO operator seat, you gotta be going a 150 miles an hour. Like, if if you wanna
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...founder the whole way. I think that's been a really good move in venture in the last thirty years, not because it's morally right, though maybe it is, but because it's savvy. Whenever you have to change out your founder, by definition, you're gonna l
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...my the founders of a company where I worked was like I was like, oh, should I be CEO? Should I not be CEO? Should I be CTO? He's like, look. Just try it. Be CEO. See how it goes. And, you know, initially, I thought, like, alright. Well, I'm gonna get
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...a founder to either change their role or step back from a company? Because we don't see this often. We like to talk about founder led businesses. Founders fund, of course, likes to back companies that are only led by founders. And in this case, he de
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...founder, we've seen many times with like the Reed Hastings effect can like actually navigate a transformation because they know the team, they are product focused. They have the moral authority. They have the moral authority. They have support from t
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I wanna throw one more at you, Greg. Last time we spoke, you were the CTO of the company. Now you're the CEO. I had seen CTOs take on the CEO mantle before. Not unheard of. Not super common either. So for folks out there who are either the CTO or CEO
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...cofounders because we'd had lockers next to each other in primary school. We were three white guys. We were all basically the same height. We all basically looked the same. We'd all grown up within a few blocks of each other. We were great, great fri
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...was going to be founder, president, face of the company. We we hadn't yet formed a plan. I I was still unclear about raising capital.
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...three of us as founders, are really evolving and having to deal with the growth like Denae mentioned. So it used to be that the way we dealt with it was we are three equal co founders. There's nobody else. Right. There's no titles. That's how busines
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...cofounders still. Many of the cofounders, like, you know, you said data warehousing was a big push for us. My cofounder, Reynold, was really the one that kind of pushed this. Yeah. Like the well, the the contribution level from a large number of cofo
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...I think statements that use the word never just don't tend to work as well. When you take longer to get to the same place, you're just gonna have more change. 1999, as I said, it was a sprint. Found the company, go public in three years. Most people
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...founders are very important as part of growing a company. And if you take out the founders too early, don't get me wrong, you don't need to have a founder at the company like Mark Zuckerberg is still there. There's not so many Mark Zuckerbergs. But i
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fundamentally, the problem was the three of us were the same person, and you didn't need all three of us. What we might have made up different reasons to fight every day, but the fundamental reason we were fighting is that, yeah, you know, we had cas
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...founders out there having to do things that they would never want to do. And I have seen some founders that you would not even think of that actually were in very, very difficult situation because of the bot. The problem is that when you start having
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...of founders tap out, walking away from something or, in this case, walking towards something.
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