Mark Pincus
speaker
1,607 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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It's motivating to me.
I always say I'm a team player as long as I'm running the team.
So, can I hire other people like that?
And I like to say, I was a frustrated expert witness when I worked for other people.
And those are the best people to turn into a CEO.
They're kind of a little bit of a know-it-all.
They think they have the right answers and they're going to find out if they do.
And so, we let them actually be a CEO and they have all this pent up demand to actually go and prove that they were right.
And that's a beautiful thing.
So yeah, I love this principle of make everyone a CEO.
And we're kind of going there in Silicon Valley with this idea of get rid of middle management.
Brian Armstrong was saying everyone should be an individual contributor.
Everyone should be managing a lot of other people.
That's really kind of, to me, the best CEO is like the best player at the position and is doing the thing they're great at and they're not wasting their time on management.
They go together.
We start our careers in our 20s very close to the metal, meaning we are individual contributors and we are working on
getting the primary data and building the actual product usually.
We're in the trenches.
And the people in the trenches are usually closest to the data, closest to probably the right answer, but they're also usually furthest from making the decision.
And that's what I call the expert witness syndrome because you're called to the stand by the adults and you plead for what you believe
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