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It can be different in a very early stage startup but generally a CxO's job isn't to do the grunt work. It's to set direction/vision, create opportunity and ens
by rorykoehler 9y ago
It can be different in a very early stage startup but generally a CxO's job isn't to do the grunt work. It's to set direction/vision, create opportunity and ensure there is money in the bank. That's why you have a job. If you don't like it you could always do what they did and go out on your own. If you do that be prepared to live with daily existential dread and possibly a realisation that you don't have the skills to do what they are doing. Desk time is a very bad indicator of performance.
- 0xbear 9y agoThey don’t even do that. :-)
- 35bge57dtjku 9y ago> It's to set direction/vision, create opportunity and ensure there is money in the bank. Getting funding I understand, but the other 2 are so nebulous and/or trivial sounding it's no wonder people sometimes make fun of those roles.
- rorykoehler 9y agoI take it you've never had that weight of expectation? If it were so trivial everyone would be a billionaire. Deciding what to do and what not to do is no easy task.
- 35bge57dtjku 9y agoThat's quite a claim. Maybe it's other things preventing people from being billionaires, like the fact that there are so few CEO positions, for starters.