Dan Rosensweig
Dan Rosensweig
Dan Rosensweig is an American business executive, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chegg. Previously, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Guitar Hero, a series of music rhythm games published by RedOctane and Harmonix, Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo!, President of CNET, and President and Chief Executive Officer of ZDNet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I think we were a bit unfortunate to come away with just a draw. I thought we were the better team today. Nonetheless, I'm extremely proud of the girls. They played excellent soccer and kept themselves in the inside position to win the VCCL.
When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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It was a great goal. Kat drove in a tremendous cross and Callie's finish was impressive both athletically and technically.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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We saw the opportunity for both companies to seize the day.
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This is good for consumers; it's just a lot harder to do when you're flying an airplane as fast as these companies are flying and you want to change the engine at the same time. We have to get it right.
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There's a big difference in doing it in scale and in respecting users' privacy. When you do this with 250m people or more in multiple languages, you really want to make it secure.
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It's about providing a service that users really want.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.