GoDaddy CEO on ditching bikinis and promoting diversity
Aug11
Last week, I wondered aloud: can the strides that GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving has made in furthering diversity in the workplace, especially for women, undo the damage that its years of sexist ads wrought upon the company? It turns out that Irving, who has been CEO of the company since 2013, wonders the same thing. After my article ran, I was invited to meet with him and have a conversation about the complications that arise when running a company that spent a lot of ad dollars associating itself with bikini models and racy commercials. Here’s a transcript of our conversation,…
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