Mindset, Grit & Failure
What does a COO actually do for a CEO?
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01There is no universal COO profile - the functional areas that report to a COO change with each CEO, so hire for match rather than a template. source →
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So their first company was funded based on the COO experience of Kimball Musk, not on the visionary. You really need to have both parts for anybody to believe in the company, quit their jobs, come orate it to just even scale. So it's safe to say that even Elon Musk, you know, like sometimes the CEO gets all the sort of buzz in the credit, but there's always, but there's always at number two, right?
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