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The writer's a VP, won awards, worked in i-banking, and has a double bachelors from an ivy league. She's trying to be cheeky and the first hot takes from the HN community is whoa, how dare they! Relax, it's a quick sunday read. Go do something nice for someone.
This is the strangest thing I've read today. At so many levels. Really really weird. I wonder if the author's LinkedIn now says "Acting CEO" at company blah, thereby qualifying them for some full CEO role somewhere as a next career step.
The writer's a VP, won awards, worked in i-banking, and has a double bachelors from an ivy league. She's trying to be cheeky and the first hot takes from the HN community is whoa, how dare they! Relax, it's a quick sunday read. Go do something nice for someone.
I'm sure they're a smart individual but expression and context matters, and still leaves the question of not finding someone in the actual company who could take over temporarily.
"The company has 100+ employees, hundreds of customers, and more than 15,000 end users. I spent almost four months as CEO. Prior to this role, my “operating experience” consisted of working as a waitress during college." I'll admit: I dug a bit to figure out what space the company is in, so that I can avoid using their services if it was applicable. Side thought: It'd be interesting to do a bizarro "Undercover Boss"…
A month to a year, depending on the industry and company, would be a lot harder. With a big company with long product cycles a month might largely be a vacation/autopilot too, but at a startup or in a critical time for a company, even a month could be life or death.
"The company has 100+ employees, hundreds of customers, and more than 15,000 end users. I spent almost four months as CEO. Prior to this role, my “operating experience” consisted of working as a waitress during college." I'll admit: I dug a bit to figure out what space the company is in, so that I can avoid using their services if it was applicable. Side thought: It'd be interesting to do a bizarro "Undercover Boss"…
Re: bizzaro undercover boss, If it's for a week, "just don't fuck it up" would be fine. If I got airdropped into something where I had no experience or relevant insight (e.g. CEO of LVMH for a week), the only thing I could realistically do is try to keep stuff that was already working working (by deferring any decisions or just making "what would you do" delegations to subordinates), and spending the week learning ab…
You're right - you would need some extended period of time, especially at a larger company.
The writer's a VP, won awards, worked in i-banking, and has a double bachelors from an ivy league. She's trying to be cheeky and the first hot takes from the HN community is whoa, how dare they! Relax, it's a quick sunday read. Go do something nice for someone.
Also, it's PresenceLearning, a digital platform to connect learning professionals with K-12 students. It just takes two minutes of reading some context.
0. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/clay-whitehead#section-ove...
This is the strangest thing I've read today. At so many levels. Really really weird. I wonder if the author's LinkedIn now says "Acting CEO" at company blah, thereby qualifying them for some full CEO role somewhere as a next career step.
I know many "acting CEO's" list that time as CEO, and are considered CEO (and rightfully so) for that duration.
The writer's a VP, won awards, worked in i-banking, and has a double bachelors from an ivy league. She's trying to be cheeky and the first hot takes from the HN community is whoa, how dare they! Relax, it's a quick sunday read. Go do something nice for someone.