Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.
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Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.