2 What makes you think you are CEO material?
This chapter covers
- Could you really handle being CEO? Better question yourself first.
- How do you formulate the all-important elevator pitch?
- Are you sufficiently resilient to leverage VC rejections as constructive feedback to iterate and improve?
My first taste of startup excitement with MasPar was behind me. Then, after four years of rising through the executive ranks at Borland International in Scotts Valley, California, I had succeeded in my goal of learning how building the highest-quality software in the world is done. Plus I was gaining valuable management experience for my path to becoming a startup CEO without having a deliberate plan to do so.
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