Chief of Indeed wants to be ‘world’s most powerless CEO’


Recruit Holdings Co CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba. — Bloomberg

TOKYO: Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, chief executive officer of the company behind top job-search engine Indeed.com, doesn’t seem to place much significance on his own position.

“I want be the most powerless CEO in the world,” Idekoba of Japan’s Recruit Holdings Co told Haslinda Amin in an interview for Bloomberg TV’s Latitude. “What I think is, ‘How can I facilitate everybody?’ and ‘How can I give good vision?’”

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