Toni Townes-Whitley (SAIC CEO, Nasdaq board) — 'This kind of thinking is at the heart of good governance'

Toni Townes-Whitley — CEO of SAIC and a Nasdaq board member — shares Eric's Fortune essay 'I wrote the playbook that built Big Tech' and frames the mission-preservation question as core governance work: as tech companies scale and ownership changes hands, how do we ensure the technology continues to serve the public interest?

“As privately owned technology companies assume a larger role in civic life, how do we ensure that the technologies they build continue to serve the public interest as they scale and change hands? This Fortune article raises an interesting perspective on that question. Eric Ries argues that founders should think not only about building transformative technologies, but also about how to preserve the mission and values behind them as their companies grow and ownership evolves. This kind of thinking is at the heart of good governance.” — Toni Townes-Whitley on LinkedIn