These 10 Tech CEOs Could be Fired Tomorrow


Bangalore: Leading a company must be a tough job- long hours and sleepless nights, especially when ventures are impacting the world and CEOs themselves are struggling, amidst the proxy wars, revenue generations, unhappy investors, customer expectations and the rivaling competitors.

Life as a tech CEO is not different. The people who sit on this hot seat with Sword of Damocles above them, could face anything, even getting fired overnight. Here is a list of ten tech CEOs of that kind, compiled by Business Insider.

Dick Costolo: CEO of Twitter

Costolo sold his RSS advertising network FeedBurner to Google and joined the company in 2007. He left the search giant in 2009 to become the COO of Twitter and was promoted as the CEO in 2010.

Reason: Costolo has got to prove twitter is more monetizable, to the investors and board members who once believed Twitter would be the next Facebook. But according to eMarketer, twitter is generating four times less money than Facebook, per user and it just done $139.5 million in 2011 compared to Facebook’s $4 billion.