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As CEO of Levo, a millennial-focused career platform, I'm fascinated by how others turn their passion into success.
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.
Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.
Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.
I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he's been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.
We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
As a businessman, if you ask me what I'm proud of, I'm proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.
There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.
One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
I don't believe it's appropriate for me or any other CEO to wade into every political dispute. That's not what we're here for.
When times are good, a CEO should remain poised and composed. When times are difficult, a CEO should remain poised and composed.
I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.
That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
The CEO of large multi-nationals like Hillary [Clinton]. They won't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.
For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.
Deciding whether or not to bring in an outside CEO is one of the most gut-wrenching decisions that a founder will ever need to make.
Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'
I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010.
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it's a good thing to be chairman.
As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.
Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.
In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.
Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.
I think of a traditional CEO as being divorced from customers. A lot of consumer company CEOs - they're not really interacting with consumers.
21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.
Be kind to each other. You never know who's going to become the CEO of what. You never know who is going to become Taylor Swift. You never know.
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.