Especially in today's world with social media, there are a ton of CEO/Founders who want to become celebrities/influencers and some who actually are extremely famous. This can be amazing as a rep, since clients can know (even admire) your CEO and want to meet with you just to learn more about the company. This can lead to more deals which will make every rep happy.
But.....on the other end. If you have an outspoken CEO and they get in trouble, I assume sales are going to be pretty tough.
Take Dan Price as an example. I am sure every rep at Gravity was able to get more inbounds/close more deals since the DM followed Dan and likes his message on LI. However, now with the news, I am sure a lot of companies will not renew or not request demos for Gravity.
Even consider working for Tesla, I am sure seeing Elon go to war against Twitter can be annoying at times. Or him doing something that cause Tesla's stock to sink since he represents the company. Or even look at what happened with Apple's stock when Steve Jobs had to step down, when the company is so strongly rooted in one person it can be pretty volatile.
Would you want your leadership in the public eye?
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