From Founder to CEO (was Founder Investing)
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From Founder to CEO (was Founder Investing)

Getting ready to not being fired

About the Book

About the Author

Marcio S Galli
Marcio S Galli

Hello! I'm Marcio (Taboca) Galli, a lifelong contributor of the web and a passionate advocate for the transformative power of technology in education and communication. My journey in the tech world began at a young age and led me to earn a Computer Science degree from the University of São Paulo at São Carlos. My career has been marked by my contributions to open-source initiatives and web standards, starting with Netscape Communications and extending through my involvement with the Mozilla project.

In my over two decades in the industry, I've worn many hats - from software engineer to front-end developer, and from technical writer to founder. Writing, particularly in English, has been a cornerstone of my professional expression, enabling me to share my insights on technology and its intersection with entrepreneurship.

Table of Contents

  • Entrepreneurs fate
    • Entrepreneurial anxiety
    • Establishing a personal delivery and learning system
    • A founder is not a business (essay 010)
    • What great entrepreneurs are teaching us about learning (essay 020)
    • Goal of the book, the phases for growth
    • No one’s fault — entrepreneurship emerges out of existing businesses
    • The next pages
  • Reflection on technology
    • s20 The cauldron of creativity (Andy Grove)
    • s030 The Speed of Technology
  • Reflection about money
  • s010 — the stages of growth
  • Do it because you love ❤ it
    • Paraphrasing Steve Blank on advice for entrepreneurs
    • Would you pay others to let you do your job?
    • Conclusions
    • References
  • Consciousness and entrepreneurship
    • On entrepreneur behaviors: overconfidence and representativeness
    • Response-able and conscious coordination
    • S054 Compassion for the road ahead
    • Conscious and unconscious agenda
    • Learning how to learn is a key skill for first-class founders
    • What to look for when searching for your next great cofounder
    • Insight from Brian, not exactly about cofounders but about learning in the immersive experience a.k.a. compression of time
    • Disagreements will happen (feat. Patrick Collison)
    • Don’t let it fade — the immersive cofounder experience of 4 monthes at at YCombinator
  • Reasons for pursuing an entrepreneurial life
    • s055.1 Sam Altman interviewing Reid Hoffman on his something idea what he believes to be true that most people disagrees with
    • s055.3 Steve Blank on the vision to start a company
  • Risks of entrepreneurship
    • Signs of an young entrepreneur ecosystem
    • Entrepreneurs belief that money granted from VC is self-validation
  • s500 Resisting scale, optimize for culture, degrade less
    • A founder-CEOs and VC access to superpowers of professional CEOs
    • Growing through value and shaping product-market

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