Sometimes I read these things and wonder... Does anyone <i>really</i> think that the CEOs job is doing the grunt work.<p>Like I get that everyone does stuff at a startup, but are you really a 'CEO' if the business isnt even big enough for someone to be dedicated to building out the business yet.<p>I dont even know if i have a point, but i dont really think anyone is going to read this and go 'of course! all this time i shouldve been a CEO instead of not being a CEO'
While great CEOs of large companies do edit much more than they write, I see early stage CEOs that think they can start editing right away, because they're the CEO.<p>For the first couple years (at least), it takes heroic effort to get something to work and then to build a growth machine around that thing that works, and a founder/CEO needs to do a lot of "writing" to make that happen.