Lead a company built on real distribution.
You're not just joining a startup. You're building the commercial layer on top of software that already has traction.
The strongest fit has done this before: raised a venture-backed round, taken a product from zero to one, and knows the ecosystem well enough to move fast inside it.
Most CEO opportunities ask you to bet on a slide deck. This one starts with a project that already has users, a technical co-founder who's been living inside the problem for years, and a body of evidence proving real demand.
By the time a CEO search opens, the company already has commercial validation and early momentum behind it.
“If you're going to pour your heart into your open source project, you might as well build a world-changing business at the same time.”