He Studied $6.4 Trillion Worth of Founders. Here's What They Shared | Mark Macleod | Traction

<p>Mark MacLeod, founder of Limitless.CEO, has sat with some of the most consequential founders in tech. As Ex-CFO of Shopify and FreshBooks, GP at Real Ventures, Canada&#39;s largest seed fund, and founder of a leading SaaS investment bank, he has personally overseen over $1 billion in exits. He has seen exactly what ends a founder&#39;s run, and it is rarely the market.</p><p>After studying 11 founders who built a combined $6.4 trillion in enterprise value, Mark rebuilt his entire philosophy around one idea: your personal health is the ceiling of your company. Today he runs Limitless, a program where CEOs train like elite athletes to scale their companies without sacrificing their health, their families, or their longevity.</p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p><ul><li><p>Why the number one reason founders came to Mark looking to exit was not valuation</p></li><li><p>How fit CEOs have outperformed the S&amp;P 500 by 2.5x over four years and what that actually means for how you lead</p></li><li><p>The biomarker dashboard Mark uses to predict his own performance quarters in advance</p></li><li><p>What Zuckerberg, Chesky, and Tobi Lutke share that most founders overlook entirely</p></li><li><p>The earliest warning signs that a high performer is headed toward a breakdown</p></li><li><p>Why your nervous system is your company&#39;s operating system</p></li><li><p>How to design your role around your zone of genius the way Tobi did at Shopify</p></li></ul><p>If you are building for decades and not just surviving the next funding round, this conversation will change how you think about the relationship between your body and your business.</p><p><br></p>