CEO at 24

Shaan tells a story about how he became CEO of Monkey Inferno at age 24 by taking massive action and building a personal brand.

"When I was at Monkey Inferno, I was 24 years old, the youngest person in the company, and the newest hire. Six months later I got named CEO. The way I did that was by building a brand for myself. Mine was going to be about taking massive action on everything.

Whatever the thing was, I would take action on it immediately. I would do the things nobody else wanted to do. If we didn't know if people would like something, I'd take the prototype, go to the mall, talk to people, and come back with written feedback.

I was honest about my limitations. I would tell people, 'Look, I have the least experience of anybody in this room. I've never worked on any of this stuff before. I don't know how to code, I don't know how to design, but I'm going to make myself useful. What you guys need is help getting your product into people's hands and getting feedback quickly. So I'm gonna go crazy on that. What you guys are gonna get in the next 6 weeks is me going crazy on that.'"