Sun.Oct 13, 2019

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The Top Cloud Stories of the Week: 326 Unicorns, Microsoft??Android, Signs Your VP Can’t Scale, Change at SAP

SaaStr

We now have over 228,500 (!) subscribers to the SaaStr Cloud Daily on Quora , 9,100,000+ views, and are adding thousands of new followers per week. One benefit from Cloud Daily is our community speaks and upvotes their top stories of the week. For this week, here were the top cloud stories according to you , perhaps some that you missed: The founder of SoftBank-backed hotel startup Oyo is buying back shares in his company in a $1.5 billion deal. 13.7k views · 47 upvotes · 1 comment. $1B+

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Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs.

Kellblog

Over the years I’ve noticed how different CEOs take different degrees of ownership and accountability when it comes to the board of directors. For example, once, after a long debate where the board unanimously approved a budget contingent on reducing proposed R&D spending from $12M to $10M, I overhead the founder/CEO telling the head of R&D to “spend $12M anyway” literally as we walked out of the meeting [1].