What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

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Now let's get to it.

On today's episode, I'm going to talk about one of the things that was hardest for me

as a startup founder, and that was transitioning from early stage

founder to late stage CEO. The essay I'm about to read is called the second job of

a startup CEO and it's written by Ali Rogani who is managing director of Y Combinator

he's the former CEO of Twitter and the former CFO of Disney.

Ali breaks down the three distinct jobs of a startup CEO and specifically how to go from

from being a stage one doer in chief to a stage two company builder in chief.

As someone who did not make this transition

successfully, I so wish that I had this essay earlier in my career and my hope is that

as I read it it helps the next Alex who hasn't yet gotten to that moment with their company.

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