Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring

Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by yojo on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:08AM (#34247269)

Even with co-founders, one of you is still the CEO.

You need an executive function to set direction and unblock stupid territory squabbles. Someone whose decisions are final. If you have two actual CEOs, you don’t have that.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by steveBK123 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:14AM (#34247364)

Someone has to be 51+% either way..

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by andsoitis on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:23PM (#34248493)

HBR has an interesting, recent article about why, in some cases, it might be better to have two CEOs: https://hbr.org/2022/07/is-it-time-to-consider-co-ceos

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by ghaff on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:05PM (#34250668)

Good read.

The one time I've seen this situation has been as a board member of a small non-profit. This was ages ago but, as I recall, there were two well-qualified candidates for an editor-in-chief position. It seemed a case where if we appointed one, the other would walk. So we made them co-editors and it didn't go well.

But I can imagine circumstances when it can work with the right people and circumstances.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by steveBK123 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:29PM (#34253523)

Exactly.. probably instead of ending up with 1 happy person and the other walking, you ended up with 2 unhappy people and both eventually walking!

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