Hiring a CEO is All About Timing

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) walks through his thought process of hiring a CEO for his content agency business. The issue is, is it too early to bring on a CEO? Hiring a CEO early on gives the opportunity to shape the mission and vision of the business. But hiring a CEO before product-market fit can put the business in a precarious situation. Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrazyOnesPod Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about Validated here: http://bit.ly/ValidatedPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone this is Alex Lieberman your coast of the crazy ones and I am back with a founders
0:06.9	journal style episode of the show where I break down some of the biggest problems topics things
0:13.7	are just genuinely interesting to me within my work as an entrepreneur. Now before I hop into the show
0:20.1	I just want to say that there's a big announcement coming. I can't say exactly what that is yet
0:25.6	but all I can say is that tomorrow there's going to be a little announcement that comes out
0:32.0	so make sure to check out the podcast feed for that. If you're observant enough
0:37.6	you can probably tell what this announcement is going to be. That's all I'm going to say for now
0:43.3	but you can probably tell what the announcement is going to be if you are observant enough.
0:47.9	So let's hop into this episode. Today I'm going to be talking about my journey to hire a CEO
0:54.1	and why it is so freaking hard. Let's do this thing.
1:01.7	A very real challenge that I'm facing right now is hiring a CEO for my new ghost writing agency.
1:08.5	Let me rewind and explain my big vision outside of this agency because it'll help for you to
1:14.0	understand why I'm even hiring a CEO for this business in the first place. My goal in terms of
1:20.3	my career is to create content about entrepreneurship and building businesses and then launch many
1:26.8	businesses that benefit from the entrepreneurial audience that I have said differently
1:32.5	where I act as the best marketing channel for the businesses that I own. I love the content
1:37.5	game and I want to stay in the content game as long as possible. So I'm trying to create this
1:41.6	virtuous flywheel where step one I built a company that was Morning Brew and now is also the
1:48.1	ghost writing agency. Step two, I learn really interesting lessons from building my companies.
1:55.6	Step three, I create content about what I am learning while building these companies.
2:01.2	Step four, my audience cares about these learnings and because they care about these learnings,
2:07.3	it means that I am getting a generally entrepreneurial founder-like audience to follow me on social media
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