CEOs Bet Their Jobs on AI Success
The CEO AI Gamble — Why Half of Business Leaders Believe Their Jobs Depend on Getting AI Right With so much riding on AI success, many CEOs see getting AI right as crucial to their future — but that gamble comes with risk and reward. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ehDKRb9m #AI #Leadership #FutureOfWork #BernardMarr
Microsoft Gaming CEO Rejects Bad AI, Emphasizes Human Storytelling
In a new interview with Variety, new minted Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she has "no tolerance for bad AI.” “AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be, but great stories are created by humans.” https://t.co/ETLocbkujP
New Xbox CEO Pledges Humility and Urgent Innovation
Read a first note from @asha_shar the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming: Dear team, Today I begin my role as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. I feel two things at once: humility and urgency. Humility because this team has built something extraordinary over decades. Urgency because...
GomSpace Posts Sharp 2025 Profit Rise Despite Payment Dispute
Smallsat builder @GomSpaceGroup: Revenue, profit up sharply in 2025; CEO confident that invoice nonpayment by major customer will be resolved soon, says deliveries on the 18-sat contract continue. @UnseenLabs @KpsZSU. https://t.co/vmIO8qFe9l https://t.co/owCDCmRzCj
Sarandos Reaffirms Netflix Commitment to Warner Bros Theatricals
Takeaways from my interview with Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos, specifically his detailed commitments to theatrical releases for Warner Bros movies ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/y6Ya3j2nWi
Ubisoft CEO Unveils $200M Cost‑Cut, Creative House Plan
Ubisoft CEO Explains Three-Year Plan to Revamp Game Publisher Through New ‘Creative House’ Strategy, More Than $200 Million in Cost Reductions https://t.co/3Q14sQldSc via @variety
VNET CEO Purchases 40k Shares at 69p
Joint Chairman and CEO at #VNET bought 40,000 shares at 69p each. I don't hold.
Fewer Meetings, Faster Shipping: Autonomy at Vercel
Our goal is to operate like the world's largest startup. One of our new colleagues told me today that what she loves the most about Vercel is how few meetings we have and how fast she can ship. And that at her...
Rebecca Kutler Plans Overhaul of MS NOW Dayside Lineup
Scoop: MS NOW chief Rebecca Kutler is set to make changes to the network's dayside lineup, I'm told. Details in status.news: https://link.status.news/3MSNqnG
Spend at Your Marginal Frontier, Not Just More
Your CFO wants more efficiency. Your CMO wants more volume. They're both right. And both wrong. The real question isn't "what should our target be?" It's "where are we at on our marginal frontier?" Spending power = the amount you can increase spend before...
Bank Relevance Demands Challenger Mindset, Not Just Tech
No amount of technology or marketing will make a bank relevant without a challenger mindset. Culture determines whether innovation ever reaches the customer. We discuss this with @EFulwiler, CEO of Rival. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/Y31f7tnfQ6 https://t.co/hmRJoRouya
Entrepreneurial Mindset Now Essential for Venture Capital Success
Thrive just announced a new $10B fund. “[early on] a very prominent endowment passed on Thrive because they thought I was too much of an entrepreneur.” — @JoshuaKushner via @patrick_oshag’s pod I’m biased but believe an entrepreneurial mindset is increasingly important in...
Lockheed CEO Rules
Lockheed CEO Taiclet says LMT never considered spinning off part of biz to allow for direct DoD ownership stake: L3Harris "didn't have, I guess, apparently, the resource to manage the scaling themselves." If regulators had allowed LMT to buy Aerojet "we...
Building a CIO Office to Impact 1,200 Families
My favorite part of my job is working with C-suite officers. Right now, I’m helping build the Office of a CIO ahead of a corporate split. Day 1, she inherits a brand-new company. We meet daily and work through org design, capital allocation,...
Customer Obsession Turned $6M Into $5B
Coach went from $6M to $5B because Lew Frankfort focused on one thing: Customer obsession. Function. Difference. Emotion. That’s brand power. #Branding #Leadership https://t.co/dSE0pXRsTs
AI Enhances, But Can't Replace Human Insight in Journalism
A wonderful evening with the @Columbia Knight-Bagehot Fellows — journalists taking a deep dive into business, economics, finance and technology at a moment when rigorous reporting has never mattered more. We talked about leadership, resilience and AI — and the responsibility...
Collapse AppStack Into AppOS to Boost Developer Velocity
At #ZohoDay26, @Zoho CEO Mani Vembu makes the case to collapse AppStack layers into an AppOS. The goal is the same - #EntepriseAcceleration through higher developer velocity. https://t.co/e7JTmo1bS8
Zoho CEO Highlights Overwhelming System Complexity
Next up - @Zoho CEO Mani Vembu on the challenges of #ensw. In short. Too many systems. #ZohoDay26 https://t.co/VncJBRx1pr
Wall Street Underestimates Coinbase Amid Growing Adoption, Regulation
NEW: 🚨 Brian Armstrong says Wall Street underestimates Coinbase, even as it grows stronger through rising adoption, clearer regulation, and improving financial performance.
Ellison Should Pause Warner Bros Gamble Now
Maverick, Don't Do It: Ellison's Warner Bros. Gamble Is a Mission He Should Abandon (For Now...) $PSKY $WBD $NFLX https://t.co/EkRaklKyol
Ex-Altera CEO Leads Vsora to Challenge Nvidia, AMD
Former Altera CEO Sandra Rivera has joined French AI chip startup @vsora_dsp as chair of the board. I had a chat with her about raising Vsora's profile, raising funding, and competing with Nvidia, AMD and the entire landscape of startups...
Brain Health Becomes Decade‑Long Priority Through Daily Habits
The next decade is the brain health decade, as I discussed with Bristol Myers Squibb (@bmsnews) CEO Chris Boerner at their Global Town Hall last week when @Thrive Global launched our brain health partnership to their 34,000 employees. BMS is...
CEOs Must Publish Transparent AI-Forward Memos
100% agree. This is why I’ve been pushing for organizations to publish AI-Forward CEO Memos that are honest and transparent. CEOs need to be more proactive in communicating the impact of AI, and make the next steps for employees more...
When CEOs Outshine Teams, Hiring Is Failing
Early on, the CEO is “the best person at the company” at some things. Often sales (passion + knowledge) or product vision. But by 100 people, if the CEO is “better than everyone” at 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, the CEO has hired poorly, and...
Scaling a Startup Is Harder Than Starting One
Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one with Brian Halligan Brian is Sequoia in-house CEO coach, long-time CEO and co-founder of HubSpot , and more than anyone I’ve ever met, a...
New CEO Drives 34.5% Revenue Surge at Casio
New post just published: on Casio (6952 JP) - New CEO Shin Takano has revamped the organization - Latest quarter timepieces revenues +34.5% YoY - EV/Sales of 1.0x https://t.co/iB9kX6Gzcb
Automation Shifts Jobs to Higher‑Level Human Oversight
The future of work will look something like what Boris is describing. Anthropic is hiring engineers because people who know what they’re doing still have to tell the agents what to do, review their work, and integrate that work into...
Narrow Positioning and Separate Budgets Beat Industry Giants
My top 5 takeaways from my chat with Gille Berteaux, Livestorm's CEO (nearly $20M ARR, 3,500 customers): 1. Expanding too broadly can kill product-market fit: After COVID, they added meetings and sales demos. Suddenly they looked like a smaller version of...
Zerohash Rejects $2B Mastercard Offer, Defends DEX Strategy
I think $2B is a big number to turn down 😅 Which is what Zerohash reportedly did when Mastercard came knocking Here's the CEO, @e_woodford, explaining the rationale on DEX in the City👇 https://t.co/whjL67HwGV
ARC Raiders Shatters Records, Validates Nexon's Global Strategy
Junghun Lee, CEO of Nexon, said in an earnings release, “ARC Raiders, the biggest new game launch in Nexon’s history, is still growing and sustaining engagement 15 weeks after the October launch. The game has exceeded our most optimistic projections,...
Sanofi Appoints Ex-Merck KGaA Chief Garijo as CEO
Sanofi, looking for more ‘rigor,’ swaps CEO Hudson for ex-Merck KGaA chief Garijo https://t.co/SDLUYOzPuD by Kristin Jensen $SNY - 4% $MKKGY
Monthly CEO Talks Launch on BiotechTV Featuring New Leaders
From Kendall Square - @MassBio’s @KendalleOC will be doing monthly CEO discussion shows on @BiotechTV this year. Leslie Williams and Ed Kaye (who both have new companies) are in the house today. https://t.co/MTSeqemxgc
Shift From Tech Fixes to Economic Agility with Agentic AI
Most companies don’t have a technology problem. They have an economics problem. That’s why this extract stayed with me. In this conversation with Mike Sutcliff, CEO of Thoughtworks, he names what many leaders feel but rarely challenge. As he says: “𝐖𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚...
Saylor's Strategy Commits to Perpetual Quarterly Bitcoin Purchases
NEW: ⚠️ Saylor says Strategy will keep buying BTC "every quarter, forever" despite ~$5B paper losses. Source: Decrypt https://t.co/Rk2gTdJp6S
AI Wins When CEOs Own the Strategy
AI isn’t failing because of technology. It’s failing because of leadership. Everyone keeps saying AI is a technology story. The data says otherwise. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s latest research shows a quiet but massive shift: AI has moved from the IT agenda to...