The First-Time CEO
The First-Time CEO
50 Conversations on Leading While Becoming
About the Book
The First-Time CEO is a book about what it really means to lead while becoming — told through 50 conversations with first-time founders, seasoned leaders, and the experts who guide them. In an era obsessed with certainty and success, this book explores the truth behind both: that leadership is not a destination, but an unfolding. Through candid interviews and personal reflections from my own journey running a tech startup, I invite readers into the raw, unpolished reality of modern leadership — where courage is often quiet, growth is rarely linear, and becoming is the work itself.
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* Make sure to opt-in with an email for this package, so I can contact you! The First-Time CEO Founding Membership has only 50 spots. You'll receive: ✨ Lifetime subscription to The First-Time CEO newsletter 🎧 Sponsor one podcast episode + one newsletter edition 📘 Mention in the book (with bio + company website) 🌐 Bio on the Founding Members page on Substack 📕 eBook version of The First-Time CEO 🎤 Opportunity to be interviewed on the podcast 🎟️ Free entry to the Lisbon book launch event with a signed copy of the book 🤝 Invitation to potentially co-create: host workshops, talks, and more
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90-Day Organic Growth Blueprint
After growing Olympia, my AI SaaS, from $0 to nearly $8K MRR organically, I created this organic growth blueprint for you to apply to your own startup. I hope it's useful!
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Table of Contents
- Disclaimer
- Introduction
- The CEO’s Dilemma
- The Three Acts of CEO Drama
- Why I Wrote This Book
- What You’ll Actually Get
- The Bottom Line
- The Unfolding
- The Career That Led Me Here
- My First Tech Startup
- Rapid Organic Growth That Surprised Everyone
- Now Take Some Popcorn
- The Hardest Startup Lesson I Learned
- What This Taught Me About Being a CEO
- The Unfolding Continues
- The First-Time CEO
- Season 1
- Kirk Marple on Reinvention, Resilience, and Building in the AI Age
- New Fin de Siècle? What It Means for Entrepreneurs Today
- Entrepreneurship: The End of an Era, The Birth of Another
- Geopolitics: The Breakdown of the Global Order
- Culture & Society: The Age of Decadence and Anxiety
- What This Means for CEOs: Leading in a Fin-de-Siècle Moment
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