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How to make a Co-Ceo relationship work, Elizabeth Caley - CEO at Poppy

18 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube interview (April 18, 2024) where Mark MacLeod asks Elizabeth Caley (CEO at Poppy) about how a co-CEO relationship works. They frame the relationship as an intense, marriage-like partnership that changed with remote work and may concern investors as the company scales, though the pair expect to continue co-leading informally.

It's different now, now that we're remote. But, like, certainly back in office times, we spent more time with our co founders than we did with, like, our actual spouse. Right. It's like your business marriage. Such an important relationship. How do you divide the world between you and just how, how does the co CEO thing actually work?
Yeah. It certainly does make certain investors nervous. And I think we both realize that, you know, Series B beyond, it's probably not going to be the way that we, you know, we have to run a company, but we know that we're going to co lead kind of no matter what, always.