Chapter 6. Christos Cotsakos: E*Trade: Courage under fire

Cotsakos on Cotsakos

I'm the head honcho and chief visionary. So I'm responsible for the future and making sure the spirituality of the company remains intact. But I stay involved on a day-to-day basis on everything - because you have to fly at 50 000 feet and you have to get your hands dirty in the foxhole. That's the way the internet entrepreneur works today. You have to be both. You have to know what's going on both on a micro level as well as a macro level because the two fit together very, very tightly.

I'm one of those weird guys - I can only sleep four hours, if I sleep more ...

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