CEOs Embrace Selfie Videos to Talk Up Earnings and Prove They’re Not Robots

  • LinkedIn posts from CEOs have risen 23% over the past year
  • Gray says humor shows he’s just ‘like everybody else’
Jon Gray’s LinkedIn post on earnings day.Source: Jon Gray/Blackstone/LinkedIn
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The post-earnings C-suite video has become one of the hottest trends in corporate communications. First-time creators wanting to get their own messages out to the masses can look to Blackstone Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Gray.

In a series of videos that strike the balance between the folksy and the financial, the 54-year-old billionaire has shared that Luna, his dog, is his secret earnings adviser and why it’s good luck not to wear shoes for remote TV interviews.