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Published · transcript-backedMichel Feaster: evaluation
5 Aug 2017 Acquired Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
“not investor but first CEO who essentially exposed the myth that it’s all perfect all the time and kind of gave I think CEOs and leaders permission to talk about all of the hard things that really make or what he calls the struggle.”
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- Michel Feaster
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- evaluation
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- 5 Aug 2017
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- Acquired
- Episode
- Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
Transcript context
…Well, what’s funny is you’d imagine, I think if I went through this, I’d probably never want to talk about it again. But Ben went and wrote a whole book about it. Yeah, and thank God. I feel like he’s the first... not investor but first CEO who essentially exposed the myth that it’s all perfect all the time and kind of gave I think CEOs and leaders permission to talk about all of the hard things that really make or what he calls the struggle. I remember when I was going to found and he told me “your hardest challenge is going to be managing your own psychology.” And he’s dead right. To me, his book gives people permission to talk about what that’s really like. Yeah. I never attributed to that but you’re right, the last few years it just seemed like the climate of okayness to talk about these things has dramatically increased.…
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