Hasnain says:

As always with one of Charity’s posts, I found myself nodding along. There’s so much gold in the founder mode discussions, but it was unfortunately buried under so much hubris. She does a great job extracting the useful information in this piece.

“There is actually no shame in this! He is right: being a CEO is fucking hard. It does not come naturally. Nobody is born good at it. It takes a lot of hard work and pain and suffering to become someone who is good at running a company. I was CEO of Honeycomb for 3.5 years, and it almost killed me. I never got good at it. I have immense respect for the people who do it well.

But this attitude he has, where the buck stops literally everywhere but him — is one I find so fucking repellent. Ethics aside, I also feel like it constitutes a material risk to any company when the CEO is so lacking in humility and self-awareness. (I can leave room for the possibility that he is actually humble as fuck and he just…chose not to share those reflections with us in this talk. 🤷)”

Posted on 2024-12-19T03:00:27+0000