The goal of this piece isn’t to glorify working to the point of burnout - but don’t expect it to be a normal desk job. Most of the time, it’s an all-consuming job, though some people are able to do it while maintaining more “life” in their work-life balance. When you sign up for the role of CEO at a startup, you should know what you’re getting yourself into. For example, here’s what my calendar looks like right now as I’m writing this. This article isn’t an optimistic or sanitized take on how I’d like to spend my time it’s an unvarnished look at how I actually spent my time over the last two years. My goal? For folks out there with hopes to become a startup CEO, you can get a behind-the-scenes deep dive into how you might actually spend your time on the path to building a company. So in the spirit of the two-year anniversary of the founding of Levels, I thought I’d share a little about how I spent my time for the first two years, backed up with data. I’ve found that by tracking my time rigorously, I’m constantly taking the pulse if I’m spending the appropriate amount of time on the areas most critical for the business. There are seemingly endless demands on your time as a founder-CEO. It nudged me to make some serious changes with how I spent my time.īeing intentional about time management has also forced me to be realistic about how much I could actually accomplish in a given time period. This was especially surprising because if you had asked me how much time I was spending on these things, I would have guessed probably 20 minutes a day. I started tracking my time more seriously after I installed an app and, to my horror, discovered that I was spending more than three hours per day on social media and several additional hours consuming news. My role as CEO of Levels is my first non-technical role. Well, I’m a bit obsessive, and I track every 15-minute increment of how I spend my time and I’ve been doing so religiously for years. A little background - as a four-time founder, I've historically been on the technical side of the companies, either as an individual contributor or leading engineering teams. People often wonder how startup CEOs spend their time. Prior to founding Levels, he was the founder of CarDash (YC’17). Sam Corcos is the co-founder and CEO of Levels, a biowearable company that shows you how food affects your health using real-time biological data.
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