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Despite whatever YOU think it means, it's a formal legal term. Even a sole proprietor is legally an executive officer. You should dig those CVs out of your tr

Despite whatever YOU think it means, it's a formal legal term. Even a sole proprietor is legally an executive officer. You should dig those CVs out of your trashcan. We all try and choose an appropriate term, founder, owner, CEO, etc., but there's no rulebook and you're just making up a meaning for CEO that it doesn't actually have.

intev 5y ago
Even though it's a legal term it's incredibly misleading to say the least. It's like calling yourself a top 3 finisher in a race of 3 people. Sure you are technically correct, but also very misleading. CEO implies you are the chief of a group of people. At the minimum > 1. If you are the chief of yourself and a question pops up, "Who were you managing?" or "Talk about a conflict with your team and how you resolved it" it can get embarrassing pretty quickly.
- mattmanser 5y ago
  Again, I feel this is just you. You're ascribing a deeper meaning to the term than it actually has. Even in this thread there's someone saying "Well it's OK to call yourself CEO as long you actually tried to start the business". Think about it a bit more. How many employees before you can call yourself a CEO in your opinion? 1, 2, 10? Do they have to be employees or do freelancers count? Do free interns? Does your company have to have made a profit, or does it count if you just blew a bunch of seed cash and never made a dime? And what term do you want to use if they fall out of your personal guidelines? As you haven't actually suggested one, nor has the GP. FlibbleFlobble? Pertankywank? PersonWhoDidSomething? You setup your own company, you're a CEO.
  - intev 5y ago
    You are making this significantly more complicated than it has to be. Like I said, you and 1 or more people. If you work with other people you can call yourself a CEO. Doesn't matter if they're part time or what not. You still worked with another person. By your logic my example of the top 3 finisher in a race of 3 clearly illustrates why your view is very misleading.

intev 5y ago

Even though it's a legal term it's incredibly misleading to say the least. It's like calling yourself a top 3 finisher in a race of 3 people. Sure you are technically correct, but also very misleading. CEO implies you are the chief of a group of people. At the minimum > 1. If you are the chief of yourself and a question pops up, "Who were you managing?" or "Talk about a conflict with your team and how you resolved it" it can get embarrassing pretty quickly.

mattmanser 5y ago
Again, I feel this is just you. You're ascribing a deeper meaning to the term than it actually has. Even in this thread there's someone saying "Well it's OK to call yourself CEO as long you actually tried to start the business". Think about it a bit more. How many employees before you can call yourself a CEO in your opinion? 1, 2, 10? Do they have to be employees or do freelancers count? Do free interns? Does your company have to have made a profit, or does it count if you just blew a bunch of seed cash and never made a dime? And what term do you want to use if they fall out of your personal guidelines? As you haven't actually suggested one, nor has the GP. FlibbleFlobble? Pertankywank? PersonWhoDidSomething? You setup your own company, you're a CEO.
- intev 5y ago
  You are making this significantly more complicated than it has to be. Like I said, you and 1 or more people. If you work with other people you can call yourself a CEO. Doesn't matter if they're part time or what not. You still worked with another person. By your logic my example of the top 3 finisher in a race of 3 clearly illustrates why your view is very misleading.