I've been the CEO of my company for 7 years, but I consider my first day to be when I shaved, swapped my shorts for pants, and appeared on the national news

Doug Hirsch; Business Insider

• Being a CEO means knowing the vision for your company and being able to articulate it. 
• Doug Hirsch, the co-CEO of Good Rx, started researching the idea for his company in 2010.
• Although he technically became a CEO at the founding in 2011, he didn't consider himself one until much later. 
• The moment he knew he became a true CEO was during an interview with ABC in 2013, when he realized his role was to articulate the direction of the company.

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When you're the co-CEO of a startup that you founded, there's never a true "first day." Unlike walking into an established company, the startup world is much less official at the beginning, and it's not always clear when you've transitioned from a small idea to a profit-seeking enterprise.

You might say that I became the CEO of GoodRx — a website that tracks drugs prices from over 75,000 pharmacies and offers coupons for prescriptions to users — when I first conceived the idea of the company, deciding that there had to be a better way to help Americans save on the astronomical costs of prescription drugs.

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