Chegg
Dan Rosensweig serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Chegg.com, where he oversees the overall business operations and executive management.
Dan brings successful, high-growth consumer business experience to Chegg, having served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Guitar Hero and Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for product development, marketing, international operations, and North American operations. Prior to Yahoo!, Dan also served as President of ZDNet, where he managed its successful merger with CNET.
Dan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Hobart College in Geneva, New York. When Dan isn't attending a Springsteen concert or enjoying quality time with his wife and two daughters, he participates on the Advisory Board of the non-profit DonorsChoose.org, and contributes as a member of the Executives in Residence program at Columbia University. He also resides on the boards of directors of both Adobe Systems, Inc., and Katalyst Media, Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg's social media company.
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Last Updated: Fri, Sep 17, 2010
The way to find a career that you love is not to think of it as a job, says Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig. He also offers many relevant insights. Follow your natural passions and inclinations and the work will simply follow. Work with people you trust, and give them everything you have. Don't concern yourself with the road not taken - but when you approach a perceived dead end, step away from the organization professionally. To find true enrichment from your work, start over and try again.
Dan Rosensweig, former COO of Yahoo! and current CEO of Chegg, speaks about the value of acquisitions for organizations who face operational pressures that can inhibit internal invention. Yahoo! bought other companies for either their team or their technology, but the ultimate goal of any acquisition on their radar was to use it as a magnet for broader advertising sales. 
Chegg CEO and seasoned Silicon Valley executive Dan Rosensweig discusses the dawn of working in the Internet age to a Stanford audience who has never lived without the Internet. His tales from the trenches include the overwhelm he first experienced when voicemail, a fax machine, and 14 emails entered his inbox, and the crushing pain of failed stock options as the bubble burst. For those who did not experience the Internet boom of the 1990s and the bust of 2000, this historical perspective offers first-person insights.
Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig talks about the tremendous expansion of the Internet when he worked for Yahoo! (as COO 2002-2006). After working in publishing for many years, it became clear to him that print media, radio, and television were on the decline as the Web was on the rise. Despite the fact that the dot-com economy had all but buckled, user numbers continued to grow during this period, and Rosensweig knew that it was just a matter of time until the business model caught up to user demand.
Dan Rosensweig worked with a number of industry leaders before becoming the CEO of Chegg, and his experience taught him to recognize practices of successful leadership. He suggests that aspiring entrepreneurs think big and optimistically. Solve problems, but don't whine about them. Surround yourself with people smarter than yourself, and give them the freedom to execute, trusting them to course-correct as they learn and improve. A great CEO doesn't need to be the smartest person in the room, states Rosensweig; they just need to know where to find an expert on any subject.
Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, formerly the COO of Yahoo!, discusses how Google supplanted Yahoo! as the leading desktop search engine during the mid-2000s. Rosensweig points out Yahoo! served many products to many people, and that in contrast, Google created one great tool for a much wider audience. He discusses Google's initial strategy to be unconcerned with search as a revenue stream, and to focus instead developing a better search product - a key to their eventual desktop search success.
It's better for a CEO to describe success than to prescribe the exact methods employees must use to achieve it. This is done, says Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, by establishing a company vision and sharing it often with employees. He advises to not think in terms of business models, but rather to reframe the questions to ensure your company is thinking big enough. Then, hire people willing to be part of a team that will be integral to this vision.
A billion dollars were on the table, but still Facebook refused to sell itself to Yahoo!. In this clip, Yahoo!'s then COO (and current Chegg CEO) Dan Rosensweig discusses the deal that he failed to seal, and what that path has meant for both Facebook and Yahoo!. Rosensweig also discusses every great entrepreneur's reluctance to be acquired.
In conversation with KPCB's Chi-Hua Chien, Dan Rosensweig, CEO of textbook rental company Chegg, speaks about his professional history within Yahoo!, ZDNet, and Guitar Hero, and shares insights on business in the dot-com trenches. Rosensweig offers his perspective on the evolution of the online media and advertising industries. Additionally, Rosensweig encourages entrepreneurs-to-be to "bet on the inevitable" as they explore their passions and the growing future of online services.
In conversation with KPCB's Chi-Hua Chien, Dan Rosensweig, CEO of textbook rental company Chegg, speaks about his professional history within Yahoo!, ZDNet, and Guitar Hero, and shares insights on business in the dot-com trenches. Rosensweig offers his perspective on the evolution of the online media and advertising industries. Additionally, Rosensweig encourages entrepreneurs-to-be to "bet on the inevitable" as they explore their passions and the growing future of online services.