I had always despised expensive consultants and their elaborate proposals, but the success of Heidrick and Struggles in hiring the perfect CEO for the Mobile2win China business taught me that there was a reason why the world’s top companies worked with such consultants. They delivered and really created value for their clients. More so, I learned that startup founders were not always right. In this case, I would never have hired Heidrick and Struggles, but the VCs did, and that decision catalysed the sale of Mobile2win China to Walt Disney.
