How to Build a Board of Directors That Actually Works

It’s not about control — it’s about influence

Joe Procopio
Marker
Published in
6 min readFeb 3, 2020

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I’I’ll give you the bad news first: When you’re the founder of a growing company, at some point you’re probably going to lose control of your board.

A board of directors is a legally required entity that is responsible for making a company’s most critical structural…

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Joe Procopio
Marker
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I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer. Building TeachingStartup.com & GROWERS. Write at Inc.com and BuiltIn.com. More at joeprocopio.com