ChatGPT Extracts 7 CEO Email Strategies From 100 Executive Interviews

2 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Aug 21

Seven recurring inbox habits emerged after ChatGPT reviewed 100 Business Insider Power Hours interviews with CEOs, founders and investors about how they handle email without letting it dominate the workday.
The most common playbook was to protect priorities before opening the inbox and confine email to set windows, with leaders like Carter Reum, Rebecca Minkoff and David Risher avoiding constant checking.
200 daily emails for Siemens CEO Roland Busch and 700 for Mark Cuban showed the range of volume, but both relied on systems—short replies, folders and suggested responses—to keep messages moving.
AI scripts, delegation and hard nightly cutoffs also featured prominently: Andrew Bialecki uses automated summaries, Hady Kfoury cut at least 150 emails a day, and some executives stop checking after 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The broader takeaway was that top executives treat email as a tool to structure, limit or even replace—some prefer Slack, WhatsApp or calls—rather than as a running to-do list.