Why Founders Outrun the Quarterly Game audio documentary cover
Business 24 min

Why Founders Outrun the Quarterly Game

The CEO who stays longest wins, and the reason is not talent.

Public-market founder-CEOs outperform hired managers, but the edge is not vision or conviction. It is the structural freedom to absorb five-year drawdowns that would end a professional CEO's career. The performance gap is mostly a measurement of who is allowed to play on which clock.

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