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Evolving With Your Company [Entire Talk]

Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker was humbled when he stepped down as CEO of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile security that went from being a three-man startup to a public company with nearly 1,000 employees, earning $150 million a year. Over those eight years, however, he learned how to position a business just right, how a CEO’s job and behavior must change over time, and how a leader can develop the self-awareness to adapt.
Video 57 minutes
Bob Tinker, MobileIron
Evolving With Your Company [Entire Talk]
Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker was humbled when he stepped down as CEO of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile security that went from being a three-man startup to a public company with nearly 1,000 employees, earning $150 million a year. Over those eight years, however, he learned how to position a business just right, how a CEO’s job and behavior must change over time, and how a leader can develop the self-awareness to adapt.

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Bob Tinker, MobileIron

The Founder’s Oath

Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker goes over what he calls the "Founder Oath," which consists of several pledges: to separate ego from the business, to always serve the company and the team, and to acknowledge that clashes among co-founders can kill a startup. The fourth promise states, "If the company is fortunate enough to grow beyond me, I will step aside gracefully for the good of the mission."
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ETL Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast
Bob Tinker, MobileIron

Evolving With Your Company

Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker was humbled when he stepped down as CEO of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile security that went from being a three-man startup to a public company with nearly 1,000 employees, earning $150 million a year. Over those eight years, however, he learned how to position a business just right, how a CEO’s job and behavior must change over time, and how a leader can develop the self-awareness to adapt.
Podcast 59 minutes
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Bob Tinker, MobileIron

Take Mental Pictures

Bob Tinker, co-founder and board member of MobileIron, shares wisdom analogous to the familiar phrase, "Stop and smell the roses." He recalls how a skydiving instructor once advised him before the jump that, despite the adrenaline rush during the fall - which for some is nothing but a blur afterward due to the sensory overload - to remember to "slow your brain down and take mental pictures."
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Achieving ‘Go-to-Market Fit’

MobileIron Co-Founder Bob Tinker describes the next challenge for a startup after figuring out product-market fit, and that's achieving what he calls "go-to-market fit." This entails three things: deciding on a sales model and committing to it, developing a repeatable sales and marketing routine that secures and delights new customers, and positioning the business so it aligns perfectly with the problem it is addressing.
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Subtler Skills of Leadership

Aside from the typical traits associated with strong leaders - like vision, determination and execution - Bob Tinker points out equally important skills that aren't talked about as often but are essential for any CEO. Among them, according the co-founder of MobileIron, are an ability to develop an acute self-awareness, to balance confidence and vigilance, and to be persuasive to a broad set of stakeholders.
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Culture is a Company’s Soul

Bob Tinker, founding CEO of MobileIron, explains that entrepreneurs can choose to proactively build company culture or let it form organically. Either way, founders should be deliberate about how workplace culture develops and know that it becomes set when the team grows to 20 members, according to Tinker. In eight years, his startup grew from the three co-founders into a workforce of nearly 1,000 employees before it went public.
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