Most Startups Add Independent Board Members Too Late To Make A Real Difference. Here’s Why.
Think Of Your First Non-Investor Board Member As a Senior Hire, And Not Your IPO Board
4 min readMay 6, 2022
Being a CEO and running a startup is hard! So you’d think that founders would take advantage of every resource available to help them out. And for the most part they do. But one gap I see too often is leaving the Independent Board member seat unfilled for long periods of time. Often because it’s scoped as requiring a Director who will…
