CEO Time Allocation: A Data-Driven Analysis of Year One and Two Company Building

Sam Corcos, co-founder and CEO of Levels, provides a detailed breakdown of how he spent his first two years building the company by tracking every 15-minute increment of his time. The article reveals that CEO roles are highly variable depending on company stage, with the primary job being to unblock team members and act as an information router. Corcos emphasizes time management principles including replacing to-do lists with calendar-based planning and maintaining open bandwidth to identify organizational gaps.