Founder to CEO: A Recap

How does your leadership change as your company grows?

Russell McGuire
ClearPurpose
Published in
21 min readFeb 20, 2023

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Just over a year ago I began a series of articles titled “Founder to CEO”. I identified eight key roles that a business leader, whether a startup founder, a scaling business president, or a mature enterprise CEO, must play. For each of the eight roles I spent several weeks writing articles describing the general concepts surrounding those roles, reviewing books related to the roles, and finally describing how the roles change as the business matures. Someday I may turn all of this into a book, and…

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