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The emotional impact of stepping down as a CEO, Shrad Rao CEO Wagepoint - The Startup CEO Show

11 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Shrad Rao recounts the emotional impact of stepping down as CEO. He describes unexpected strong emotions immediately after leaving the role, comparing the abrupt stop to jumping from a high-speed train and experiencing unchanneled energy and restlessness in the days that followed.

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It's more emotional than I thought it was going to be. And that's saying something, because I think I'm generally fairly sensitive. But the. It's sort of like right after it felt like, you know, I was sort of on a train that was going like a hundred miles an hour, or maybe like a Eurofin train that's going like 360 kilometers an hour, you know, and then I thought overnight, right? And then I kind of like. Like, it's like I went out of the train window and I continued to go for, like. Like, for the first couple of days afterwards, I couldn't sit because I just kept so much energy that wasn't being directed anywhere.