More Thoughts for Executives

Todd Greenbaum, President and CEO of Input 1, holds that when the knowledge required to run and grow a business stays inside a small executive group, the business cannot scale past what those few people personally handle. Greenbaum’s answer at Input 1 was to fund a permanent knowledge department that pulls operating knowledge out of … Read more

Jason Veiock, founder and CEO of Bearing, holds that an enterprise cannot govern AI it cannot see, which is why the governance layer belongs on the system of record employees already work in rather than on each tool they adopt. Veiock’s test for any large organization is arithmetic: if ten percent of a 350,000-person workforce … Read more

Brent Constantz, founder and CEO of Blue Planet, assigns every company goal to a young professional who serves as its strategic auditor with no managerial authority, which forces that person to lead by asking the right questions of executives well above their level. Constantz has run this goal leader program across his last five companies, … Read more

Krishna Srinivasan, founding partner and co-founder of LiveOak Ventures, holds that a venture-backed founder CEO must recognize their investor board members answer to two masters, the company and their own fund’s limited partners, before any board relationship will produce real value. Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach and host of The Scaling Executive Podcast, identifies … Read more

Garth Coleman, CEO of Canvas Envision, holds that a company must define and document its operating playbooks during build mode, before hypergrowth arrives, because a team that has not systematized its work cannot absorb the volume when the switch flips. Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach and host of The Scaling Executive Podcast, identifies Coleman’s … Read more

Colby Durnin, founder and CEO of CREDE, holds that cultural fit rather than money or structure determines whether an acquisition holds, because a professional services roll-up buys people whose motivation cannot be purchased or organized into place. Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach and host of The Scaling Executive Podcast, identifies Durnin’s approach as culture-first … Read more

Keith Zubchevich, president and CEO of Conviva, holds that a new CEO scales themselves by discarding the operating framework they inherit and building one that matches their own strengths and weaknesses. He made that change after stepping into the CEO seat in 2021, following more than 13 years as Conviva’s Chief Strategy Officer. Glenn Gow, … Read more

Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach and host of The Scaling Executive Podcast, sits down with Travis Hedge, Co-Founder and CEO of Vouch Insurance, to examine what it actually takes to step into the CEO seat after nearly eight years driving revenue as a functional founder, and what that transition reveals about how ambitious companies … Read more

Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach and host of The Scaling Executive Podcast, sits down with Dan Hnatkovskyy, CEO and Co-Founder of Jome, a marketplace that uses data science and AI to match qualified buyers with new construction homes. Dan previously founded Brainify, a CRM and management platform for real estate developers, which he scaled … Read more

Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach and host of The Scaling Executive Podcast, sits down with Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CEO and President of Visiting Media, an immersive media and hospitality sales enablement company serving thousands of properties globally. Jascha previously served as CMO at Mozilla and BitTorrent, President at Lytics, and held foundational roles at Microsoft … Read more