Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One? (Update)

Hey there, Stephen Dubner. If you follow business news, you may have noticed an interesting trend. Big companies hiring not one, but two CEOs. It's happening at Spotify, Oracle, Comcast, and elsewhere. Why does this seem to be happening so frequently?

Well, One possibility, a slight possibility, perhaps, is that all those people have been listening to Free Economics Radio and an episode that we made a couple years ago called, Are Two CEOs Better Than One? So we thought it might be a good time to revisit that episode, and that's what we're playing for you today as a bonus episode. We have updated facts and figures where necessary. As always, thanks for listening.

People often ask me, where do you get the ideas for your show? And I usually say something like, well, I don't have a real job. This show is all I do, so I spend a lot of time reading, talking to people, wandering around, trying to sort out what's interesting in the world and what's underexplored. But occasionally a good idea just shows up in an email, like the one we received from one Zach Levine of Tampa, Florida. As an entrepreneur who has started and sold several successful tech startups, he wrote, I have always toyed with the idea of having a co-CEO.

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