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CEO Costolo confident as Twitter goes public

When you take on a new candidate to act as your company's executive officer, you need to be thinking on several planes at once: past, present and future can all be necessary to evaluate what you think of a certain person and how well they perform.

For example, when your company is small and private, you can visualize how a promising-seeming person might act once things explode. They might be naturally suited to handle public and investor pressure, or they might crack.

Either way, the CEO tenure of whoever's in charge when something significant occurs is an important thing to keep in mind. Just look at what's happened now that Twitter has gone public.

As a highly visible and active social media company with a lot to potentially gain in the future, this shift could have been a moment when Dick Costolo, that company's CEO, appeared arrogant and closed off. However, in a recent interview with CNBC, the executive projected confidence and a faith that his business will endure because of the vital role Twitter now plays in society.

"When you think about the company we're building, this indispensable companion to life in the moment, there are all sorts of in-the-moment capabilities," he said. He also made much of the connection between Twitter and television, indicating that this is another area where his company can demonstrate its value.

Whether things go amazingly well or disastrously badly, having a solid CEO as the "eye of the storm" might help smooth over any flaws that might otherwise appear in your company when a change this massive begins to assert itself, and YES Partners is a resource that might help you find someone that accomplished. 

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