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PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Post by jimminy »

joshdickson wrote: post #5
fundameen wrote: post #2

Any time a company brings in a professional CEO it's a bad sign.

Yeah, really killed Google.

You're using a mismatched understanding of experienced and professional.

Shmidt wasn't a professional CEO, he was a software engineer who worked his way up the ladder and then took his experience as CEO to another company.

Tejada's experience seems to be all related to corporate management, and thus is a professional CEO.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Post by joshdickson »

jimminy wrote: post #6
joshdickson wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, really killed Google.

You're using a mismatched understanding of experienced and professional. Shmidt wasn't a professional CEO, he was a software engineer who worked his way up the ladder and then took his experience as CEO to another company. Tejada's experience seems to be all related to corporate management, and thus is a professional CEO.

No, I am saying something funny, for effect, based on an ignorant stereotype that professional CEOs never succeed.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Post by ChuckMcM »

[ Got to confirm that Forbes has backed off a bit on their ad-blocker denial -- interesting. ]

I met the folks at PagerDuty when Blekko was at a Berkeley recruiting meetup. I don't recall the technical lead who I talked to but I do remember that they had all the correct answers for the questions I posed them. At Blekko we were pleased with the high degree of both automation and quick visibility into problems of our ops stack. It was part of our "secret sauce" for being operationally efficient, and the PagerDuty folks had all the same instincts.

Given this announcement, the financials mentioned in the article, I'd expect an S-1 to drop somewhere between October and February. That would be a positive thing both for them and tech in general.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Post by fundameen »

joshdickson wrote: post #7
jimminy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're using a mismatched understanding of experienced and professional. Shmidt wasn't a professional CEO, he was a software engineer who worked his way up the ladder and then took his experience as CEO to another company. Tejada's experience seems to be all related to corporate management, and thus is a professional CEO.

No, I am saying something funny, for effect, based on an ignorant stereotype that professional CEOs never succeed.

No one said that professional CEOs always fail. I said it's a bad sign when one is hired. Are you arguing it's a good sign, or that tech companies do better with non-founder managers?
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