خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب The Venture-Backed CEO’s Guide to Mastery, Influence & Endurance: How Founders Become Great CEOs

Three out of four venture-backed companies fail to return investor capital. The ceiling on a company is almost always the person running it—specifically, the parts of themselves they cannot see.The Venture-Backed CEO’s Guide to Mastery, Influence & Endurance is for the founder who has to grow as fast as the company does—from the builder who got it off the ground to the CEO who can lead it at scale. This requires new skills, and letting go of habits that might have been strengths early on but can become liabilities in later stages. This is a systematic guide to the work that raises your leadership ceiling while keeping your edge.”Founders learn to scale companies. They rarely learn to scale themselves. Neal Goldman makes the case for why that second work matters—and offers founders a thoughtful framework for it.”— Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of LinkedIn and best-selling author of Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI FutureThe book is built around three disciplines.Mastery. The self-knowledge that turns your patterns from invisible constraints into deliberate choices—and lets you stop being run by reactions you didn’t know you were having.Influence. The strategies for engaging team, investors, board, and market that build durable trust: partnering with your board rather than managing it, fundraising from strength rather than defense, and leading experienced people who don’t need you to be the smartest person in the room.Endurance. Fortifying mind, body, and spirit for the long journey, often seven or more years from first raise to exit—operating under sustained pressure without burning out, and enjoying the ride.You will leave the book with:A clear-eyed view of the patterns that drive the behaviors limiting your effectivenessPractical tools to interrupt stress reactions before they damage your team or your judgmentA framework for board and investor relationships that runs deeper than tacticsA way to recognize the decisions you have been avoiding—before the avoidance costs youSpecific practices for sustaining mental, physical, and emotional capacity across the long arcLanguage for what you are experiencing that the founder culture rarely names out loudThe book draws on depth psychology, the neuroscience of stress and self-regulation, and performance research from elite athletics and military pressure studies—more than two dozen frameworks, each paired with the mechanism that makes it work and the specific CEO consequence it enables.Neal Goldman founded and led Capital IQ, which was acquired by the Standard & Poor’s division of McGraw-Hill for $225 million in one of the strongest venture-backed outcomes of its vintage, and has built several other venture-backed companies since. He has also worked the other side of the venture relationship—as a VC operating partner, investor, and board chair and member—which is where much of his read on board and investor dynamics was formed. For the past decade, he has been an executive coach to venture-backed CEOs across dozens of companies, through fundraises, board crises, and the quieter patterns that don’t show up in board decks. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and a former Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School.The CEOs who do this work become harder to rattle, faster to recover, and more effective at attracting and keeping the people they need. They make the calls that needed to be made six months earlier. They raise their next round from a position of trust. And somewhere along the way, the work starts to feel less like a fight and more like the most interesting problem they have ever tried to solve.If you are evolving from founder to CEO and want to do it well, this book is for you.