Matthew Jenkins — CEO. Chairman. Investor. I write Three Exits: A weekly breakdown of business decisions for founders and executives.
CEO. Chairman. Investor. I write Three Exits: A weekly breakdown of business decisions for founders and executives.
Matthew Jenkins ranks #581 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in United Kingdom. They have 14.0K followers and published 42 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.2% average engagement rate.
- 14.0K followers
- 42 posts / 30d
- 0.2% avg engagement
- 518 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Matthew Jenkins has spent two decades in boardrooms just to land at a consultancy called Quiet Rotation, which is a perfect name for a company where the only thing actually moving is the needle on his engagement rate—staying perfectly, consistently stuck at zero.
About Matthew
I've been a CEO for 13 years, in boardrooms for 2 decades. Now, I write business breakdowns on the decisions behind the world's most studied companies. Why the move was made (and what they couldn't say publicly) What the numbers show when you read them properly Three things worth taking into your own business Check it out: https://ThreeExits.com I also work with a small number of founders and boards through Quiet Rotation. Matt.Jenkins@QuietRotation.com
Highlights
- Consistent Creator — 30 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Top 10% in Computer Software — Ranked #314 of 4695 creators
- Top 10% in United Kingdom — Ranked #148 of 1849 creators
- Big Audience — 13,988 followers · top 10%
Recent posts
I know a NED who waits until everyone wants to go home. Then he asks his question. Says nothing for ninety minutes. The CEO hated it. But he'd spotted something. The best performers always go early. Everyone is fresh, keen to engage and on their best behaviour. Two hours in, people just want to leave. The messages get less polished, the alliances drop away and the two people who can't stand each other stop pretending they can. That's when you get the real answers. He's not waiting to be heard. He's waiting for everyone to stop performing. Took the CEO eighteen months to work out why t
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I once watched a CEO lose his best salesperson over a bonus he owed her. She hit her full year number in May. Seven months left, sitting in accelerators that were discretionary. The CEO didn't pay them. Renegotiated the deal mid-year instead. She left. A salesperson who has closed a full year in five months, with a drained pipeline and no incentive to fill it, is exactly what every competitor is looking for. The counter offer came. Too late. The trust was gone.
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This fact was researched for the Hawkstone breakdown but cut for story length. In 2023 Hawkstone recalled its Kaleb Cooper cider. The cans were over fermented. Some could explode on a shelf. People found it funny. It spread everywhere. A genuine mistake that got shared more than anything they paid for. Nobody remembers the recall. Everyone remembers the exploding cans. That instinct to leave the story out in the open explains a lot about how Hawkstone markets itself. The 2024 social campaign generated 22 million organic impressions and 1.7 million engagements. Thirty six percent of web s
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