I read several articles like this, and I have objections in this one. I see one common pattern I do not understand — organizations only rise money in multiple rounds and it is pretended primary activity of founder should be seeking for more and more. He has no time then for people and he needs having chief of staff. To me it is totally wrong approach. I think primary work of CEO or founder is to build human capital and helping people to be productive. It cant be outsourced nor delegated. I would be glad to understand, what is wrong with company that self finance itself. Why the founder must always seek for more investors and new rounds? I founded company without investors, gave work to people around me, cultivated them to grow, participated at designing products, but never had time to seek for investor.