Founder vs. CEO: Who Creates More Value?

By Kahla CooperPublished On: May 5, 2016

“In many ways, founders are the soul of a company. That’s one of the reasons why many investors prefer working with companies led by the founder rather than a professional CEO. It’s also why some companies bring founders back during times of trouble,” according to an April 20, 2016 article in Pitchbook.com.

“The skills needed to build a company, however, are vastly different from running a business… investors may find themselves battling whether or not to keep their founders in power and help them develop into a CEO, or bring in a professional CEO to lead the company to exit… professional CEOs bring startups to a higher median exit valuation than founders.”

Read the full article at: http://pitchbook.com/news/articles/founder-vs-ceo-who-creates-more-value

Kahla Cooper is the Director of Marketing at FOCUS. In this role, Ms. Cooper designs and implements the overall marketing strategy. Ms. Cooper works with each industry team leader to define programs in order to promote and brand FOCUS’ suite of capabilities.