How I Work: Bob Parsons, Founder/CEO of GoDaddy.com
Posted by Dave | Posted in Entrepreneurs, Inspiration | Posted on 23-01-2009-05-2008
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Bob Parsons, GoDaddy.com
Inc.com recently published an article about Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com, web domain registration and hosting company.
Excerpts:
“At my office, I’m almost never behind my desk. I have this cafeteria-style conference table, which I bought for $90 years ago, and a dozen or so chairs. That’s where I am most of the day, meeting with my staff. A few folks complained that the chairs were cheap and ugly, and they’re right. But they convey the right attitude: functional and cheap. You don’t spend your money on office furniture — you spend it where it’s going to impact your customers.
I manage everything from the 57-inch monitor that hangs from the ceiling in my office, which I can access with a wireless keyboard and mouse. I have it set to Go Daddy’s home page, and there’s a program we created that tracks our current market share and how many domain names we register each day. We register about one every second. The names show up on that screen in real time, like a ticker tape. It’s always on, so I can refer to it throughout the day. I can tell at a glance what’s going right or wrong.” READ MORE
