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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

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"His statistical analysis showed that, paradoxically, founders maximized the value of their equity stakes by giving up the CEO position and board control"

I don't see the paradox of an actual academic study, with statistics and some attempt at a methodology, producing the opposite results of a small amount of cherry-picked anecdotal evidence.

Question to anyone from LinkedIn:

Why is it that when I view a profile that I'm not connected with, I can gleam more information when not logged in vs logged in?

When I'm logged in, I can see 1 info box. When not logged in, I can view their entire profile (if they have hidden option off) I basically used LinkedIn in Incognito mode now when gleaming new profiles.

What's up with that?

To get you to upgrade to a paid LinkedIn subscription?

By shutting out existing members and giving non members more features?

An SEO play? They open their database to non-logged in users so Google will index more content.

Mostly-off-topic:

"Gleam" does not mean anything that fits in those sentences. "Glean" would fit in the first sentence, although maybe you'd rather use "discern", or something more pedestrian, like "learn" or "find" or "discover". In the second sentence, both "gleam" and "glean" are nonsensical; maybe you'd like "browse"?

I wondered for ages whether Reid would do any public writing.

From his about page "On this site, I will be posting longer essays on entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, civics, politics, and perhaps some philosophical topics, too"

How do you become a "Professional" CEO?

I'm curious to hear someone's response to this as well. To me, it seems like a lucky break following by a whole lot of networking.

Great article and perspective. The lack of comments makes me wonder if he needs more link bait.

If, by CEO...

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