This interview with Blake Irving, C.E.O. of GoDaddy, a domain name and web hosting company, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
I went into school as a business major, but I didn’t like it, and I wasn’t good at it, frankly. I was good at art, though. I ended up taking some graphics classes and fell in love with typography.
I had a boss who said to me, “You are pushing so hard on the things that you want to get done that you’re driving some of the people around you crazy because you’re just so manically focused. You’re not bringing them with you.”
What I have found really interesting, and what I like about it, is that when you’re the C.E.O., you get to set a tone from your seat that’s different than if you’re working within an organization.
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