Seems Mr. Jones is out. After more than a year of no strategy since he had no clue about how to transform the business. Bring in new people, shrink groups that got it and were productive. The next group to go if the board had ba--s would be to oust the founders for people with new ideas how to grow revenue.
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replying to Nope: it’s the new CRO who’s getting wrist-slapped for expensing his private plane, not CJ.
Yes, that does mean Appian leadership pushed this layoff before tightening the belt on other, easily managed costs, like the new CRO’s plane or the CHRO’s suite at the Ritz.
The CRO who tried to expense a trip on his private plane
Chris Jones is a good man and leader. He had his hands tied behind his back from the beginning and was not allowed to make any of the strategic changes he wanted to make. A CRO can’t make a difference if he doesn’t have the full support of the executive team and the board.
And yes, he did survive cancer during his time at Appian and fought his battle admirably. Chris has always been a gentleman. I always saw him treat others with respect and compassion.
Unbelieveable. Once again, this demonstrates that the short duration as "CRO" in any firm doesn't have to have accountability or performance on the resume. I suspect New Relic will get a taste of this..
Seems like he failed upwards by going to New Relic.
It is shocking this CRO who did nothing is now the CRO at another company. So much talent in the market to hire this job hopper.
The founders were big fans of him during the interviews. The first time I met him he spent the whole dinner hitting on every girl under the age of 30. I’ve never been less impressed by a first impression of a “leader”.
The fact that it took this long to fix such an obvious problem is just another sign of the appian decay.
I figured it would only be a matter of time. In Jones' defense it's my understanding that the CRO was being treated for cancer. However, I can't figure out why the "genius founders" would hire a person with minimal CRO experience and zero public sector experience... duh....
It just demonstrates once again, how utterly unprepared and arrogant Calkins and the rest of Appian leadership is related to reality of the market.