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0 pointsinsane_dreamer1y ago0 comments

Not everyone can be a founder.

But in my experience a good founder doesn’t necessarily make a good leader. Not a CEO anyway, but it depends on the role of the CEO. If the the CEO is “chief strategy and opportunity officer” then some founders are often quite well suited to it.

But we should bear in mind that all founders do not have the same skill set. Woz was also a founder of Apple and a great engineer but not a CEO.

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zachthewf1y ago

Pedantically, literally everyone can be a founder.

At this moment, you can decide that you are starting a company. You are now a founder.

(This is why Founder is historically an unprestigious job that smells a lot like Unemployed, though the startup hype cycle of the last 15 years changed that.)

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