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EP 55: Spenser Skates (Co-Founder/CEO, Amplitude) - Going Public, Exercise Windows and Why Sales is More Important Than Engineering

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Are You the Right CEO?

Spencer: I think the key is there's, there's three big things. The first is do you have deep trust and alignment to what you're trying to do with the business together with this person? Because ultimately the job of the board is to decide whether you're the right CEO. That's the only thing they can do. They can't do anything else really. So many investors. Very, very passive. And then, you know, it's like 95% of investors. It's like, I remember hearing from one of my friends who's also VC was like complaining about, oh,you know, this company I just invested in, they want to talk to me

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