The CEO here is emotionally unstable, a master manipulator, and involved in every aspect of this company. Employees at every level from account managers to executives are constantly stressing about his approval, and can never get it. He's fired, "managed out", or lost every talented employee that has walked into this company with his emotional bullying and lack of true humility. You can see the way he deals with people in his compulsive and unapologetic response to every single review here on Glassdoor - the fake responses of "ah I'm sorry you had a bad experience. We're working to make things better, thanks for sharing!". That is every interaction I ever had with him to a T. Full of platitudes and fake sincerity, thanking you for sharing, and then proceeding to tell you why you are failing at your job (or even more manipulatively saying "I've failed at my job because I should have never hired you for this job in the first place" lol.
Every meeting that Jake is involved in eventually turns into a group therapy session with him leading out with contrived vulnerability, and then expecting others to do the same. He uses these experiences to push his baby, Disruptive University, on employees, making it seem like if you want to be successful in business you have to engage in this type of group therapy and "self improvement" nonsense. He's somehow convinced himself that his "business success" has anything to do with all the self help books he's read, and that if everyone else did all the same things he's done they would be just as successful.
Unfortunately this entire company is an extension of Jake himself. I strongly advise against anyone considering to work here. Every person I've talked to who has left has said what a relief it is to be out from under Jake's thumb, how much less stressful literally any other company is, and how glad they are to be in a normal work environment again where the company isn't treated like a Tony Robbins seminar.
