We celebrate the business founder who becomes a successful CEO - especially those high profile individuals who have successfully transitioned from the role of founder to CEO and built companies that dominate the world of business.   The five leading companies of the internet era - FAANG - as they are referred to Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google have or had founders that became successful CEO’s.

Hard to argue that Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg or Reed Hastings have not handled the transition well.

Are they the exception to the rule? Or are they just the most recognized because they succeeded at such vast scale that all other founder/CEO’s became lost in the long grass?

The skills and the personality traits required to make the transition from founder to successful CEO are not inherent in everyone. And it’s actually rare to have a founder be able to leverage that first-mover advantage to a successful role as a CEO. It takes some special sauce. A bit of pepper, a touch of salt, a pinch of Tabasco.

And of course, it takes some luck. But it mostly takes an ability to HyperLeverage. To proactively look for ways to leverage what they already had and bend these advantages to their benefit.

That is the topic that this episode will focus on. – How a Founder becomes a successful CEO

Topics Covered in This Episode:

• Why isn’t it a slam dunk that a founder can or should become the CEO of their company.
• What does it take to transform from a founder to a successful CEO?
• Why do some founders flounder and some flourish?
• When should a founder absolutely NOT become the CEO?
• What are the core traits of a successful CEO? Is this an innate skill set or can it be learned (beforehand)?
• What do most founders leverage in their journey to being successful CEO’s