How CEOs Make Career Bets: Stillfront’s Alexis Bonte on Risk, Value & Big-Leap Decisions

Episode notes

Happy Thanksgiving from the Mission One team! As we take a moment to reflect on gratitude and growth, we're excited to share a conversation that embodies both. Career acceleration rarely follows a straight line. For Alexis Bonte, curiosity has shaped every step: from joining the founding team at lastminute.com and riding the first internet wave, to building eRepublik, learning the investment world at Atomico, and now leading Stillfront Group as CEO. In this episode of Mission One: The Executive Edge, Alexis reflects on career ownership, smart risk, and the discipline of choosing growth over comfort. He explains why progress comes from stepping into hard problems, staying close to where value is created, and treating your path like an entrepreneur would treat a business. The conversation moves into leadership, hiring and performance at scale. Alexis shares why reference calls beat polished CVs, how instinct complements structure, and why one doubt should stop a hire. He speaks openly about designing his CEO role to stay close to product and teams rather than becoming lost in the public company process.