What Are The 11 Biggest Pains About Being A Startup CEO?

brett fox
7 min readOct 29, 2019

I was talking to a Venture Capitalist early on about our company. Out of the blue the VC looked at me and said, “Well you’re the CEO, so you get to deal with investors like me.

“And that’s why you get more stock than the others.”

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The VC was playing to the myth that your biggest pain and problems as CEO are dealing with investors. In one sense…

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brett fox

I work with startup CEOs to help them grow their businesses . I built several businesses from $0 to >$100M. Learn more at https://www.brettjfox.com