Loom's CEO on The Evolving CEO Journey: Adapting to Change

Name: Loom's CEO on The Evolving CEO Journey: Adapting to Change
Uploaded: 2023-07-01T14:22:12+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: Loom's CEO on how the job keeps changing: hiring priorities shift quarter to quarter, you need quick surface knowledge to enable specialists, and the…

1 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Loom's CEO on how the job keeps changing: hiring priorities shift quarter to quarter, you need quick surface knowledge to enable specialists, and the macro shift now balances growth against burn rate and margin instead of chasing growth alone.

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Uh, uh, I think that the CEO journey is a unique one in the sense that every quarter it feels like something radically different is at the top of the list. Like, whether you're hiring for a certain executive in that 90-day window, it could be marketing one quarter and the next one is VP of engineering, and it's like they're kind of a world apart. Um, and so I feel like I'm constantly getting a crash course on what is the next thing that I need to learn at a surface level just to be enough, dangerous to enable experts. And so right now, I would say that for me, over the past year, the existential sort of crisis was the macro environment is changing. It was going from growth, growth, growth to growth, burn margin.