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![growing_daniel Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1457558434044203013.png) Daniel [@growing_daniel](/creator/twitter/growing_daniel) on x 166K followers
Created: 2025-07-14 22:20:36 UTC

One thing that surprised me about running a startup is the monumentally low quality of most startup CEOs. Literally just caring about product inspires engineers. They have stories of totally checked out zombie startup CEOs and I think this is the default state of most startups.


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