I’ve worked with family-owned businesses, and their internecine battles and succession struggles ain’t great
Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, just made a very honest admission: “It is true that a company’s not a family,” he said in a recent podcast interview. “We used to refer to ourselves as a family, and then we did have to fire people, or they’d have to leave the company, and you don’t fire members of your family.”
Whenever a CEO says their employees are “family”, they’re lying. Your company is not your family.
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