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by salimmadjd 4441 days ago
I agree with you. It reminds me of an interview about Steve Jobs. I don't have the link, but one of his executives was offered a BOD position in another company. Upon asking Jobs if he can take the board seat, Jobs told him he was barely making it at Apple as is...

I also don't buy the example of Musk and others, I think we have context as to how much better each of these companies would have run if they had put 110% of their efforts into just one.

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Steve Jobs managed to be pretty effective as CEO of both Pixar and Apple at the same time for a while. Admittedly, his involvement at Pixar was mainly strategic whilst he was running Apple, but still.

Though Jobs was obviously the exception to so many rules.