Opinion

March 14, 2022

Startups — it's time to ditch your CEO

As a trio of cofounders, we decided not to have a CEO.


Stephen Heitkamp, Arun Shanmuganathan and Sean West, cofounders of Hence Technologies.

Startup founders face an existential paradox. They are encouraged to ignore the experts, abandon best practices and disrupt the status quo. At the same time, they're told to inherit the rigid leadership structures of the boring and staid corporations they purport to disrupt. 

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