Scot Chisholm argues most founders can become effective CEOs if they make a clean transition, at least to $10M in revenue. The problem isn't that founders can't do it, but that delayed or messy transitions create conflict with boards and self-doubt.
You know and I've found that most founders really struggle with the transition they want to remain a builder forever or they just don't know how to transition but my general belief is that more founders have it in them to become great CEOs what happens is they don't make that transition cleanly enough maybe it takes too long maybe they struggle and then the board or whoever turns it turns against them or they turn against themselves and they say I'm not really a CEO I don't know I'm not a CEO of material you know what I mean I'm more of a founder more of a builder guy and my view is that that's actually incorrect most of the time sure sure there are some that are just like straight up like they want to be behind a keyboard coding or something like that they're just builders and that does exist But I would say the majority of people that start companies can absolutely be the CEO to at least 10 million and.
