| | | Diligent, addictive and lonely: Eyal Waldman reveals - this is how CEO life in high-tech looks
(Courtesy of Mr. Cohen).
You experience things with tremendous intensity, and cannot share. You go to places, friends or pubs, and you cannot share anything. It puts you in a very isolated place. Even within the company you are in a lot of uncertainty and you cannot share - neither above nor with people working under you. "
After several tense years, including out of Mellanox( 49.95 -1.77% ), the local stock market in 2013, losing about half the value of the company and the acquisition EZCHIP year and a half ago for $ 810 million - the biggest merger between two Israeli companies - Eyal Waldman, co-founder Mellanox and CEO, let himself go a little bit and talk about the demanding job. It seems Sooldmn, dominant CEOs of Israeli high-tech company, and perceived industry and the domestic capital market as a resolute self-confidence is high, this bit needs air.
"As CEO," he says, "the pace of life is dizzying, sometimes you live in two weeks in ten different places in the world and meet CEOs of companies with a value of hundreds of billions of dollars - meetings that can determine the fate of big deals. And meetings - it's an addictive, dizzying, and very intense life rhythm, it's also played, but that's what you want to do.
"People also do not realize that the time of the goal. I think 20% -25% of the time I spend in airports and airplanes. Long flights the end of which you are not going to spend. Sometimes you find yourself taking a shower in the bathroom at the airport, exceeding every Sunday, uniform spaces, and going to meetings. you finish the day after dinner and get on a plane to the next, landing after midnight and go to sleep. you're going to a hotel room, according to the number of the room where you were at before. then again you make marathon meetings, it's not over. and there's some people here who do it. do not have much time to devote to friendships, then indeed true friends remain friends, but do not have time to answer during the day, talk here and there. the Paying for it somewhere own price. And as society becomes larger, it becomes more difficult. "
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