Founder Stories

The 4 Big Ways That “Founder” and “CEO” Are Different Jobs

Lessons, learned mostly the hard way, from building and running a company

Joel Wish
Marker
Published in
5 min readNov 4, 2019

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A silhouette of Steve Jobs’ profile against the Apple logo during the 2004 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote.
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty

InIn startups, “founder CEOs” have a kind of mythic power — visionaries who not only give birth to new ideas, but bring them to life across every stage as the organization grows. Zuckerberg…

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Joel Wish
Marker

3x founder, advisor, angel investor. Most recent @getSimpleHealth @frontlinefoods @parsley_health @everlywell @mindbloom. Long $BTC $DOT