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Realizing when to pass the baton

And, creating an environment of 350 entrepreneurs There are few startup CEOs who remain at the helm of their companies for very long. Amazon's Jeff Bezos is one very special guy for sticking around for the last decade, and founders don't often return to lead the companies they birthed, like Yahoo's Jeff Yang did. For the most part, startup CEOs serve for a short period of time before new management comes in. Technorati, a leading blog search engine and ad network, is no different. David Sifry, the founder and blog evangelist handed the reigns over to Richard Jalichandra last year. “It’s true in startups in general that you have different talent sets for different stages of the company. In Technorati’s case, the skillsets that got the company ... [ Read more ]

Vator TV | September 15, 2008Watch more videos from Vator TV

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