
Balancing mission and metrics: A CEO’s experience
When people find out I’m the CEO of Calm, they inevitably ask me, “Does your team meditate all day?” or “Are you calm all the time?” The honest answer is — I’m pretty stressed out.
David Ko is the CEO and serves on the Board of Directors of Calm, the #1 app for sleep, meditation and mindfulness. Before founding his own company, which was acquired by Calm, David spent over a decade as a leading healthcare executive. He is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of Recharge: Boosting Your Mental Battery One Conversation at a Time, and has been featured in TIME’s Leadership Brief, named a LinkedIn “Top Voice” and one of RockHealth’s “Top 50 Leaders in Digital Health.”
David was also the COO at Zynga, which he helped take public in December 2011. Prior to his work at Zynga, he spent 10 years at Yahoo! and currently serves on various boards at his alma mater, New York University Stern School of Business.