Mark MacLeodFounder, Limitless.ceo · The Startup CEO Coach | Helping ambitious CEOs & founders scale world-changing companies without sacrificing their health, happiness, purpose, or humanity

The super of the best startup CEOs: Persistence

3 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that persistence—characterized as a stick‑to‑it‑iveness—is the fundamental quality that unites competitiveness and leadership among startup CEOs. He emphasizes that CEOs face daily operational issues, and the ability to consistently process and resolve these problems without giving up fuels personal and company growth. By repeatedly tackling challenges, CEOs build momentum, turning a backlog of issues into forward progress.

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I think it's probably persistence. After all of these years, you know, persistence, competitiveness, leadership, maybe that all falls into the same thing, but persistence and really understanding that if you, it's a stick-to-itiveness, right? And you have every one of us, every one of these CEOs are in startups, have issues every day. And I think that's why what I said before, the processing of those issues is really important. And if you can just be persistent and not give up and just keep going and just keep going and keep going, before you know it, you had 5 issues last week. Well, you took care of them and now you're onto the next, and this is how you grow.