“ I disdain the company speaking ”: the founder of technology does not take into account communications and legal in an article of disconnection revealing on the heavy goods vehicle to be CEO

“I disdain the companies that speak and must more than the standard” I want to spend more time with my family and Lauren is an excellent visionary strategic operator focused on the product, “wrote Hulls in a blog article. “Communications have written a project to me. Legal also wanted to make scenarios. Many people had advice on what to say. But I ignored it and I decided to share my own thoughts without speaking or filters, in this unique message to anyone who wants to read it.”

According to Hulls, he is exhausted.

“After almost two decades to be the last line of defense, I think it more than before,” wrote Hulls. “There are parts of the role of the CEOs I love that feed me and parts that listen to me. When I run on empty, everything is suffering. ”

Hulls wrote that he had said to the board of directors two years ago when he was 40 years old, he wanted to get out of the CEO position before he was 45 years old, and when the company and the management team were ready for this. Hulls is now departing to serve as an executive president because the role of the CEO should be occupied by someone who is “everything in all aspects, every day, and it’s Lauren,” he wrote. Hulls said his brain was not wired for cleaned messages and common superlatives in CEO communications.

“I have never overdated or played in the stereotypes Bro Bro Bro Silicon Valley Kool-Aid,” wrote Hulls.

Antonoff’s appointment came into force this week.

Record return to the local office

The transition from the CEO launched to Life360 occurs while the turnover of the angle office broke new records for the frequency. Data from the Challenger Executive Recruitment Company, Gray & Christmas, found that the CEO of American companies increased by 12% in the first half of the year, 1,234 CEO leaving their job. The latter represents an increase of 12% compared to last year and the greatest number of years since Challenger began to follow the departures of CEOs in public, private and non -profit companies in 2002.

Among technological companies, 138 CEOs left their roles until June 2025, an increase of 16% compared to 2024. Challenger attributed the increase in CEOs heading towards hills to uncertainty, seismic changes in technology and increasing pressure on traditional leadership structures. The company noted that a third of the new CEOs were provisional appointments rather than full -fledged replacements and the succession.

Overall, some 47% of CEO replacements came from outside the company while internal appointments, such as Antonoff at Life360, took place 53% of the time. Until now, only 25% of new CEO appointments in 2025 are women.

Future plans

Antonoff has been a head of operations at Life360 since May 2023 and previously held management positions at Godaddy and Microsoft. As CEO, Antonoff will allow a salary of $ 515,000 and a target bonus of the same amount. LIFE360 has also granted its equity subsidies of single promotion with a total value of 8.4 million dollars and to share between limited stock units and performance -based stock units. She also obtained another performance sharing subsidy worth $ 3.6 million.

With the kind permit of Life360

Hulls said he and Antonoff are completely aligned with regard to users of life360 and long -term vision, but in other respects, both are “polar opposites”.

“The challenges that carry me on this scale are exactly those who dismiss it,” wrote Hulls. “She is cool, relentless and likes work. I can call her at midnight to talk about life360, and she is not only available, she is under tension.”

In the past year, Hulls and Antonoff have tested a configuration in which Hulls served as an executive president with Antonoff increasingly assuming the responsibility of the daily operations of the company, he wrote. Hulls and Antonoff found both “click in a way that makes the products work a joy”.

“We get out, we will challenge each other and sharpen ideas, and we have a lot of fun doing it,” wrote Hulls. “I hope that one day we can be like Jeff Weiner and Reid Hoffman in LinkedIn, one of these leadership duets indicates as a model for how to evolve and develop a business. A large part of what is launched this year, and what will come, has its fingerprints everywhere. ”

The LIFE360 board of directors will also undergo a small reshuffle with the Antonoff appointment. John Philip Coghlan, who was chairman of the board of directors for 16 years, will continue as director while Hulls is executive president. The Board of Directors appointed Mark Goines as principal independent director to counterbalance the new structure. Goins has been a member of the board of directors since 2019.

In a statement, Antonoff thanked Hulls.

“Chris was an incredible partner, and I am grateful to him and the board of directors for the confidence and the confidence they have placed in me. I am energetic and honored to advance the business, remaining anchored in our mission and focused on the delight of our members with products that offer real peace of mind. ”

Hulls said he would be there if Antonoff needs her.

“If she ever needs a fighter, I will be there to fight – whether it is taking patent trolls, lawyers of collective background remedies, causing trouble on Tiktok, or injecting a little crazy in a way that a founder can,” wrote Hulls.