GoodRx CEO Doug Hirsch: Weekly activity results in 'very best ideas' – CNBC

Doug Hirsch has a surprisingly simple method for getting the best ideas: setting aside three to four hours of alone time for deep thinking per week.Hirsch, co-CEO and founder of the prescription drug savings company GoodRx, believes so strongly in the method that he intentionally builds that alone time into his work schedule each week. Finding the time is a challenge — he and co-CEO Trevor Bezdek collectively manage more than 700 employees at a company with a $2.43 billion market capitalization, as of Friday evening.But it helps him succeed, Hirsch says.”I find it helpful to actually lock in time to think deeply and creatively, to really set that aside each week,” he tells CNBC Make It. “It’s like quality time with myself. I just step back from everything and really go in deep to think of the best ideas.”For Hirsch, that means sitting completely by himself somewhere, often writing on paper or a whiteboard to build out his thoughts. Those few, uninterrupted hours help him pump out his “very best ideas” for advancing GoodRx.That usually means brainstorming potential new products and features, studying how consumer behaviors are changing, and thinking about what his competitors are doing — and how…
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