Jason M. Lemkin describes stepping back as HubSpot's CEO after an injury, with Yamini Rangan taking over while he recovered. He decided not to return to the role and became executive chair instead, keeping involvement in board meetings and company events like Inbound.
And then I get hit by a bus. But they run over, hit by tree. And so break glass. Yamini took over, and then she did a fabulous job while I was healing. And then when I was done healing, I said, yeah, I'm not coming back. Would like you to be.
You own it.
I'd like you to be CEO. I don't want to do it. She was like, I'll be CEO or you would do co CEO. I don't want to do it. I was like, you get two choices. I can go find some schmuck from the outside, or you're doing it. She thought about it for a while. All right, I'll do it. And she's been awesome. She's been awesome.
Clearly been awesome.
He's a great CEO, really.
So as executive chair now, what does that mean for your work week? Like, are you still. You're 100% on HubSpot, but more working on the future and vision or how does that fit today?
It comes and goes. Like, we had inbound last week, busy getting confused with Barack Obama, and we had our board meeting this week.
