Most CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified.
Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.
Most CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified. Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.
Founding CEOs of billion-dollar companies have a wide age range, with half over thirty-four at the time of founding. A founder’s age—whether younger or older—doesn’t correlate strongly with success.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. Therefore, a CEO can most accurately be measured by the speed and quality of those decisions. Great decisions come from CEOs who display …
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Remember that “co-founder” is not an operational role, and how many you have doesn’t affect success. I have seen some founders who don’t give the co-founder title to early founding members of the company based on the false assumption that most successful companies have had exactly two co-founders. So feel free to go it alone if you have the needed
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
If you are a low-EQ leader, the first thing to recognize is that you are not alone. In fact, CEOs often have lower EQs than average.