TEK2day Podcast

GE needs to decide what kind of company it wants to be when it grows up. Board members are there to advise and complement the CEO - not to further their own careers - not to be deadwood and collect a check.

We discuss Uber's in-process deal with Softbank and Williams Sonoma's acquisition of AR company Outward.

Magic Leap on CEORater: https://www.ceorater.com/ceo/896/864

Magic Leap Website: https://www.magicleap.com/

The final chapter in our CEO Analysis trilogy where we tackle "Operations-Related" Attributes on the CEORater.com platform.

Cultural fit between merger/acquisition partners is essential in order to maximize the probability of a successful transaction. We define successful M&A transactions as those where the parties who agree to merge/be acquired have engaged employee bases that are motivated to work and create new products and services together over time. To engage with customers together. This goes beyond ROIC calculations. We cite the example of Amazon’s acquisition of WholeFoods as one that will “work” in no small part because the two companies share a similar culture.

Part II of our “CEO Analysis” series. We walk through the four categories of CEO Attributes as defined by CEORater. CEORater has created a total of 42 pre-defined CEO Attributes which speak to a given CEO’s management/leadership style. We have divided the 42 Attributes into four categories which are visually represented as four quadrants on CEORater.com. The four Attribute categories consist of the following: “Personality-Related”, (which we covered in Part I); “Investor-Related” and “Strategy & Tactics” (which we cover here in Part II) and "Operations-Related" which we will cover in Part III.

The categories and Attributes are based upon the experience of our founder & CEO Jon Maietta. Jon is a former sell-side Equity Research Analyst (coverage areas: Enterprise Software, Financial Technology “Fintech”, Technology-Enabled Services and Information Services) and former Corporate Development senior executive. CEORater is Jon’s second entrepreneurial venture. For more detail on the four Attribute categories, the 42 individual Attributes and the CEORater platform, visit CEORater.com

Users are encouraged to allocate Attributes to various CEOs on the platform as well as to write reviews about various companies and CEOs. All user activity on the CEORater platform is anonymous.

Part I of our “CEO Analysis” series. We walk through the four categories of CEO Attributes as defined by CEORater. CEORater has created a total of 42 pre-defined CEO Attributes which speak to a given CEO’s management/leadership style. We have divided the 42 Attributes into four categories which are visually represented as four quadrants on CEORater.com. The four Attribute categories consist of the following: “Personality-Related”, (which we cover in Part I); “Investor-Related”; “Operations-Related” and “Strategy & Tactics”.

The categories and Attributes are based upon the experience of our founder & CEO Jon Maietta. Jon is a former sell-side Equity Research Analyst (coverage areas: Enterprise Software, Financial Technology “Fintech”, Technology-Enabled Services and Information Services) and former Corporate Development senior executive. CEORater is Jon’s second entrepreneurial venture. For more detail on the four Attribute categories, the 42 individual Attributes and the CEORater platform, visit CEORater.com

Users are encouraged to allocate Attributes to various CEOs on the platform as well as to write reviews about various companies and CEOs. All activity on the CEORater platform is anonymous.

The fact that Siri significantly lags Amazon Alexa and Google Home is material to Apple's story. We believe that should Apple lag Google/Alphabet and Amazon from a Market Cap standpoint over the next 3-5 years and in future decades, we will look back at Siri's underperformance as the primary reason why. The AI War is being fought between Google and Amazon - Apple has lost.

CEORater's ("CR")Top CEO - ULTI's Scott Scherr: https://www.ceorater.com/ceo/8/8

Plus - An Overview of the CEORater Platform.

Limited Partners: perform due diligence on your VCs.

Many people still haven't learned the lessons of Equifax.