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I need to get this tatted on my wrist

Brian Chesky's 10 CEO plays: 1. Live in the details 2. Stay small 3. Stay flat. Stay functional. Have as few people and as few layers as possible for as long as possible. 4. Hire your direct reports—and their direct reports. 5. Speak for yourself. 6. Review all the work. 7.

I've noticed the best CEO's are only somewhat coachable. They very much have a mind of their own and don't take everything I say as gospel. That's a good sign, imho.

A founder asked me how he could develop thicker skin - more immunity to criticism. Any advice here for him?

Brian Halligan Change mindset. x.com/BallisPsych/st…

One of the attributes of the trillion dollar CEO's (Jobs, Gates, Bezos, Musk, Jensen) is that they have very thick skin. Karri Saarinen is CEO of Linear - he has this attribute in spades. ...His thoughts on the topic are 🎯.

Karri Saarinen Brian Halligan 💯 Perhaps relevant quote from Thai forest Buddhist master Ajahn Chah: "If someone calls you a dog, look behind and see if you have a tail. If you don't have a tail then there is no problem"

A lot of first time technical CEO's have trouble with all the context switching of the job. I did too. I tried the Steve Jobs method of having a separate day for the different topics (i.e. Monday -executive, Tuesday - marcom, etc). It failed on me. The world just didn't work

"If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net." Naval

Nothing better than sending voice notes. Nothing worse than receiving them.

If a founder brags about having “a balanced life,” I assume they’re not serious about winning.

I really like David Senra. They recently interviewed the host on what he has learned from getting inside the heads of hundreds of great founders. He summarized the super power in 1 word: FOCUS.

I like Dwarkesh Patel’s take on the future of the CEO: open.spotify.com/episode/2jC3Ch…

Woo hoo! I'm ludicrously excited about the OpenAI announcement today that ChatGPT now has a connector built right in for HubSpot to bring data in for deep research. Super cool to see the HubSpot logo inside the world's most popular AI app.

Klarna gets attention for efficiency gains—we shrank from ~5500 to ~3000 people in two years. But I have always highlighted AI is only part of that story. Here is how we got away from analysis/paralysis and into customer obsession and centricity:

“Most CEO’s hate their work but love their job.” James Corden.

Being motived and passionate aren't enough. The best founders are completely obsessed.

So good