Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur, who is in the process of building its fifth company. From his first four companies, two were sold, one went public, and in the last he decided to close the company and return the unused capital to their investors. With the passage of each company, he learned about the formation of the founders of the team, splitting the capital with his co-founders, hiring managers to work on it, and when to external financing. Now he is to pressure from investors who are not happy with the way he builds his current team, and question whether it should remain CEO. "Hide
by Noam Wasserman, Anthony Uy Source: HBS 13 pages. Publication Date: September 10, 2008. Prod. #: 809046-PDF-ENG
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