Becoming a CEO Blogger
It occurred to me yesterday that I’m now a CEO blogger. It was a funny realization. Pre-funding I’d only ever thought of myself as the President. Mainly because (to me) the CEO title seemed presumptuous. Not least of which is because I was part of a kind of communal team that made decisions together.
One of the major challenges for any team that operates that way is that post-funding it simply doesn’t scale to make quite a few of the decisions by consensus. So you end up operating in a much more “keep you in the loop” kind of mode. Once you’ve moved into that, it’s pretty critical that one person be responsible for certain things. And, really, it’s pretty critical that one person start to lead the company.
For b5, that person is me. And transitioning from “member of the team” to “leading the company” is difficult for anyone, especially when you *are* still a team. Just not a decide-by-consensus team.
So, over the last few weeks I’ve realized that I’m a CEO… I’m the CEO… I’m the CEO of b5media Inc.
Big realization. And, as part of that realization, a slight change will likely start happening on the blog, as I blog more and more as the CEO of b5media Inc. That doesn’t mean the blog’ll become all business. But it does mean that I’ll do my best to do what I’ve always done: share my thoughts and experiences as I go through life. It’s just that now “going through life” includes running a funded company.
I’m a CEO blogger. There aren’t that many out there. And there are even less “new media” or Web 2.0 CEO’s. And it’s pretty cool. It’s like moving into a new house. A brand new house. With no drywall, paint, stairs or roof. Kind of like those restaurants where you go in and cook your own meal. Only with a house.
And it’s pretty cool. Over the last year, b5’s built a great foundation and structure, and I’m really looking forward to the challenge of slapping some paint on, managing some new additions, doing the landscaping and putting a pool in.
POSTED IN: Business, Ensight News, b5media
