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really great article, so rare to not simply say what everyone knows but in your own voice.

What I got out of it (which is known) is that founder+CEO is like politician. Most of your job is fundraising.



Thanks! Haha yes, it definitely felt like it at times. Fundraising really took me out of the product pretty much completely, so my co-founder was keeping the fort there and keeping us afloat. At first we were fundraising together, but then we quickly realised it just wasn't feasible.

The next thing was hiring - in many ways similar to fundraising, a lot of lead generation, rejections and also very occupying.

I think and hope now will be a bit easier to get back to the product, but there are definitely things that from time to time completely consume you it seems.




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