Silicon Valley firms are increasingly hiring chiefs of staff; Washington Post, 6/25/16

Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post; Silicon Valley firms are increasingly hiring chiefs of staff:

"Silicon Valley likes to thumb its nose at Washington. Tech executives have long derided the nation’s capital as a place where good ideas go to die by a thousand regulatory cuts. But increasingly, one quintessential Washington institution is taking hold: the chief of staff. Its growth in many companies is reflective of the evolution of the start-up boom: Companies have gotten bigger, often very quickly, and they’re seeking more organization and hierarchy as a result...

Chiefs of staff are the people who control access to the people every entrepreneur wants to meet. The relationship is highly intimate: They’re the ones who brief the executives in the morning and are often the last people the leaders communicate with before going to sleep...

Some Silicon Valley chiefs of staff prefer to eschew the Washington-sounding title, preferring terms like “technical lead” (at Intel and Amazon) or “director of the office of the CEO” (for Musk).

Chiefs of staff in Silicon Valley must frequently juggle the commitments of a cast of characters with larger-than-life personalities, ambitions and whims."