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I’ve been a startup exec for 10+ years, on my 9th, and I can emphatically say I have absolutely no idea what a startup CEO actually f’ing does.

AAnonymous ·September 13, 2016 ·4 answers

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AAnonymous· Sep 15, 2016

It's okay--I have no idea what my last partner/CEO did all day either.

AAnonymous· Sep 15, 2016

CEO - marketing, sales, legal, finance, operations, & strategy. In a startup, everything that needs to be done until someone else is paid to do it.

AAnonymous· Sep 15, 2016

But then after you actually find people to do it, they come on board, then what...

AAnonymous· Sep 17, 2016

You let them guide the vision for the company. You support them in growing the revenues or whatever their objective is. It may be market share, brand awareness, or whatever they were put there to do.

I’ve been a startup exec for 10+ years, on my 9th, and I can emphatically say I have absolutely no idea what a startup CEO actually f’ing does.

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