my slightly different take on the founder/non-founder CEO debate is that it's really about missionary/mercenary CEO.
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missionaries are good CEOs; good founders are missionaries. for a long time, when VCs hired an outside CEO they hired a mercenary.
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but it can sometimes work if you hire a missionary CEO (, ) that doesn't care too much about wall street.
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