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Brian Chesky, a former industrial design student, had no meaningful business expertise when he co-founded Airbnb with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk. Despite this relative inexperience, their home-sharing website is now valued at $31 billion. Airbnb’s revenue even increased a remarkable 50% between 2016 to 2017. Chesky has pushed his organisation to new heights, year, … Read more
Mårten Mickos is the recent CEO of HackerOne, one of the most well-known white-hat hacking platforms in the world. Mickos was the CEO of MySQL, a Swedish software business, prior to joining HackerOne. “Confidence, persistence, and leadership,” according to Mickos, have helped him grow as a leader. As bizarre as it may sound, Mickos’ confidence … Read more
The study is starting by taking a snapshot of how sustainable or otherwise businesses rate themselves today. From there it will look at what big themes and great ideas emerge and look to promote these for people to follow the leaders. If you care about the environment, just as we do, please get involved and … Read more
Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, has tasked himself with updating the ethos and business model of a half-century-old retail behemoth. To do this, he has sought to change the mindset of Walmart executives, encouraging them to experiment with fresh, bold ideas, even if they fail. In an effort to digitise the company and make … Read more
Compassion is what distinguishes great managers from mediocre. Being compassionate, according to Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, can transform not only your career but also your entire life. Weiner, who was named one of Glassdoor’s top CEOs for 2018, is influenced by the Dalai Lama’s philosophy, and seeks to adapt it to a work environment. … Read more
Adam Neumann is the co-founder of WeWork, a company which provides shared workspaces to start-ups and freelancers. He used to sell baby clothes and admits he couldn’t even afford a proper lunch until refocusing… and starting a multibillion-dollar business! Neumann admits he was initially obsessed with making money, but claims things began to progress better … Read more
Reshma Saujani, a lawyer-turned-activist, is on a mission to close the gender gap in tech and teach more girls how to code. Her non-profit organisation ‘Girls Who Code’ has helped around 90,000 girls to learn programming languages. Saujani explains that the programmer stereotype of a “boy in a hoodie in a basement”, needs updating; and, … Read more
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, joined the company in 2008 and is credited for helping to turn it profitable as the brains behind the introduction of subtly placed advertising. By 2013, Facebook’s mobile advertising accounted for 30% of the company’s sales, even though this outlet had provided no returns the previous year. Sandberg’s bestselling … Read more
Evan Spiegel, a co-founder of Snap Inc. and developer of the popular social media site Snapchat, grew his small student project into a multibillion-dollar corporation. According to Spiegel, his ‘99 per cent law’, is the key to Snapchat’s growth. Perhaps counterintuitively, this involves rejecting 99 per cent of suggestions and ideas! In 2013, when Facebook … Read more
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