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@pmarca I took a course with Kevin Kaiser at Wharton on distressed asset investing a few years ago. He described how CEOs are implicitly the MCPs- most clueless person - when honest communication breaks down. They make decisions based on bad data, half truths, and derail the company.

I had a chat last night with a billion-dollar SaaS founder/CEO. He's raised $200M at a $2B valuation in 2021. Living the high life in SF with a crazy house and a Porsche 911. On the surface, it seems like he has it all and living the dream. But he called me out of the blue at 11p last night ... See more

My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here’s what it's been like. [Thread]