Your team cannot take this weight. Nor should they.
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Your COO is paid to execute. They are good at it. Executing a founder's identity decisions is not the job.
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Your CFO is paid to manage capital. They will execute a capital decision. They cannot sit with you in the uncertainty of which capital decision to make.
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Your peer group means well. They will tell you what they would do. Which is about them, not about you.
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Your board cares. They are also evaluating you while they care. You cannot be fully honest with an evaluator. This is structural, not personal.
Nobody in your orbit is paid to carry weight with you.
Which is why it is all on your desk.
· The role nobody hires for ·
The weight does not need someone to take it away.
It needs someone who can sit with it and not flinch.