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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Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.