{"id":264046,"date":"2026-01-02T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/264046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:14:08","slug":"ceos-favorite-apps-they-check-first-thing-in-the-morning-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/264046\/","title":{"rendered":"CEOs’ favorite apps they check first thing in the morning for success"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot of mystique around the CEO\u2019s morning routine; each business leader has their own habit to start the day off right, whether that\u2019s cold plunges<\/a> or 5 a.m. runs before work. But many top executives start their days just like everyone else: shutting off their alarms and rolling over to check their phones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even CEOs leading billion-dollar companies peruse through apps first thing in the morning. Lyft <\/a>CEO David Risher<\/a> starts his day off by<\/a> checking the \u014cURA<\/a> app to see how he slept\u2014the same routine of the smart ring company\u2019s chief executive, Tom Hale<\/a>. And Jordan Goldstein<\/a>, the co-CEO of global architecture firm Gensler, runs through all his messaging platforms to check which matters are pressing and which can wait for a response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Executives at all sorts of companies\u2014including Salesforce<\/a>, Visa<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Zillow<\/a>, and American Express<\/a>\u2014can\u2019t resist the pull of their phones in the morning. Many seem to be tuning into the same types of apps before making their morning coffee: LinkedIn<\/a>, Slack<\/a>, Mail, the Weather app, news sources, and a litany of wellness platforms optimizing their health. This daily habit helps set them up for success heading into the day, whether it\u2019s staying up to date on current events or strategizing the workday ahead while getting ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weather app<\/p>\n

C-suite leaders are preparing not only for the storms in business, but also for the ones brewing outside. At Fortune\u2019s Brainstorm Tech conference this September, Salesforce\u2019s senior vice president of enterprise IT strategy Shibani Ahuja told Fortune<\/a> the first app she checks in the morning is the weather. Ahuja said it shows her \u201cHow\u2019s my hair gonna behave\u201d for the day ahead.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn<\/p>\n

Just like job-hunters and professionals checking in on their networking circles, Visa\u2019s chief marketing officer Frank Cooper III can\u2019t get enough of LinkedIn<\/a>. Although the executive tries to stay unplugged from the internet first thing in the morning, he can\u2019t help but open up the career app daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI try not to check my phone when I wake up, but I\u2019m addicted to LinkedIn, actually,\u201d Cooper III told Fortune.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wellness apps<\/p>\n

It should come as no surprise that the CEO of $11 billion<\/a> business \u014cURA, Hale, checks his bodily metrics on the app as soon as he wakes up everyday. Lyft<\/a> chief executive Risher also tunes into his \u014cURA results after getting ready to find out how he slept, before kick-starting his work day<\/a> at 6:30 a.m. And similar to the two CEOs, Amazon<\/a> pharmacy vice president John Love also likes to be plugged in on how his shut-eye went; he told Fortune the first thing he checks each morning is his phone\u2019s sleep app.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Slack\/Messages<\/p>\n

Slack has become the go-to messaging app for thousands of businesses\u2014and business leaders are eager to catch up with their teams each morning. Chess.com<\/a>\u2019s cofounder and chief chess officer Danny Renach always checks Slack right after waking up, just like Greycroft cofounder and managing partner Dana Settle.<\/p>\n

There are a litany of other messaging apps, like Whatsapp and Messenger, that executives keep up with too. Gensler\u2019s co-CEO Goldstein carves out some early-morning time to check the notes sent out to him on other platforms, filtering out urgent inquiries from the matters that can wait until breakfast comes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually do a quick run through all the instant messages,\u201d Goldstein told Fortune<\/a> at Brainstorm Tech. \u201cSo every instant message app that I\u2019m using, I literally pull up one after the other and check and just see what communications have come in and what I should respond to, versus what can wait for an hour or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

News<\/p>\n

Alongside what\u2019s going on inside their businesses, leaders like to stay clued into what\u2019s going on in the world. American Express\u2019s chief information officer Radhakrishnan Ravi thumbs through the New York Times app every morning for his daily dose of news. And executives are even embracing new technology to keep them updated on global happenings; Zillow\u2019s vice president of AI Nicholas Stevens told Fortune he checks \u201csome form of news,\u201d or a \u201cvery technical AI news source,\u201d right after waking up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Email<\/p>\n

Although many workers detest checking their inboxes\u2014often flooded with mundane inquiries and spam emails\u2014some executives go straight to their unreads each morning. Varonis Field chief technology officer Brian Vecci told Fortune the very first app he checks is Outlook. And for Amazon Pharmacy general manager and vice president Tanvi Patel, going through emails can be a powerful way to start the day and think ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually the Mail app to see if there\u2019s anything I need to be thinking about while I get ready,\u201d Patel told Fortune<\/a> at the conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a lot of mystique around the CEO\u2019s morning routine; each business leader has their own habit to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[1463,86515,5047,1307,73173,27009,18,23397,12276,525,11315,19,17,3521,304,135405,99140,279,117412,5282,5,86514,50061,14083,73342,543,76738,1114,82,5030,135406,39106],"class_list":{"0":"post-264046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-and-wellness","10":"tag-apple-iphone","11":"tag-apps","12":"tag-ceo-wellness","13":"tag-chief-executive-officer-ceo","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-email","16":"tag-executives","17":"tag-fitness","18":"tag-founders","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-lifestyle","22":"tag-linkedin","23":"tag-lyft","24":"tag-messages","25":"tag-mobile","26":"tag-morning-routine","27":"tag-new-york-times","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-personal-health","30":"tag-ring","31":"tag-salesforce","32":"tag-slack","33":"tag-sleep","34":"tag-smartphones-and-mobile-devices","35":"tag-social-media","36":"tag-technology","37":"tag-visa","38":"tag-weather-and-forecasting","39":"tag-zillow"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115827576828730624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}