Being a Great CEO
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Have you heard of Jonathan Abrams? Unless you are tied into Silicon Valley, you probably haven’t. Jonathan created Friendster in 2002; it was one of the first social networks. The site was an immediate hit and should have become the dominant player in the space, not Facebook.
Friendster raised substantial amounts of venture capital from tier-1 players like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Benchmark Capital. The company also received various juicy buyout offers, including one from Google.
Yet a couple of years later, Friendster imploded. There were ...
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