Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every. Every week he explores the frontiers of AI in his column, Chain of Thought, and on his podcast, ‘AI & I.’
The CEO with an Empty Calendar
How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings
Aug 11, 2020 · 11 min readUpdated Jan 16, 2026
“So this is it,” says Amir.
“Oh my god,” I say. My jaw drops.
His calendar is almost completely empty. There are meetings, yes, but they’re drifting like planets in outer space. They dot the darkened landscape but with unimaginably vast distances between them.
Amir continues to explain. He seems oblivious to my cosmic level of shock.
“This is a pretty busy week of meetings actually because our CTO is on paternity leave. I’m doing a lot of his final reviews of engineering hires. So this is actually more meetings than usual.”
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