The Scariest Meeting I Had as a Founder/CEO: The Board Meeting

David Mandell
7 min readOct 17, 2019

There were very few moments in my life that were scarier than the very first time I went into a Board meeting as a CEO. That’s hard to admit, but it’s true.

I had been part of Board meetings before as a Founder, but never as the CEO. I was never the one on the hook for the meeting before. I was never the one who was scared shitless of looking like an idiot…

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David Mandell

Founder, VentureVoodoo, Co-Founder, Massive. Partner, The Fund, Rockies. If you walk properly, you can move the earth. @dgmandell