3 Tips on How to Be a Young CEO from Vithurs

Blessed CBD is a premium CBD brand built from the ground-up by Vithurs when he was 22. Voted the best CBD oil in the UK by the likes of Reader’s Digest, Discover Magazine, Observer, Daily Record and Express, Blessed CBD is one of the fastest growing CBD (cannabidiol) companies in the UK market.

The company itself has been given a valuation in the $15-$25mln price range, so it’s safe to say that his advice on how to be a better businessman, start a company, and make it big is worth hearing out.

1. Living as a CEO

Many young CEOs strive for success in their work and the next big idea or paycheck. Vithurs assures them that this is not necessarily the case. A great CEO, especially if they’re just starting out, strives to be successful in life first. This means not focusing as much on financial gain as on living a wholesome and satisfying life with values that make you proud of how you live.

You can’t have a good work ethic, he seems to say, unless you have a good ethic. This means using skills in organization, productivity, and cooperation outside of the workplace as well as inside. Since he founded his first business at the age of 13, Vithurs has believed in this principle of living your life as though the quality of your business depends on the quality of your ethics.

2. How to Form Goals

Ambition is a part of any young CEO’s playbook but Vithurs warns that not many people will support this ambition. As a 17-year-old with a startup, not many people supported his ambition financially or emotionally. If he had listened to them, he wouldn’t have the success he has today.

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He tells the young entrepreneurs reading to “aim for the stars; you might just reach them.” It was that thinking that allowed him to set realistic deadlines for his work and to acquire the necessary skills that allowed him to make regular progress in his field, launching successful companies like Rankfluence and TechEye.

Vithurs prioritizes awareness of your abilities as an employer and the capabilities of your employees to establish a healthy amount of pressure when it comes to setting business goals. Deadlines are a great motivator but too much pressure can cause fatigue and lead to decreases in productivity. Great CEOs, according to Vithurs, know not only when to work but when to listen to their bodies and take a break to recharge.

3. How to Be a Leader

Vithurs assures young CEOs that mistakes will happen eventually and setbacks can’t be avoided. Some mistakes will be easy to get past but some will cost a fortune and rob many young business people of their confidence.

As a leader, Vithurs emphasizes that a business can’t move forward without your guidance. This requires a change in perspective, a shift in the way you approach failure. Failures are also lessons on how to act next time. With the right assessment of perspective, failure can refine your business skills and motivate you to keep going.

Being a leader, he says, also involves accepting and embracing change. Technology is not static and businesses have to adapt to trending methods to stay relevant (especially in a post Covid-19 world). This is true of leaders as well. Without change and adaptation to new methods, CEOs will find themselves at a disadvantage, falling out of relevance or depending on solutions that no longer apply to a modern business market.

This could make you lose the confidence of your employees as well, which no CEO can survive. The loss of your own confidence will be soon to follow.

The Takeaway

Vithurs is proof that anyone of any age can start a business, become a leader, and become successful. He doesn’t profess that it’s easy or automatic, but he hopes these 3 tips on goal-setting and leadership style will help other young entrepreneurs succeed in their own journeys. As much as he appreciates his accomplishments for their own sake, he also hopes to be an inspiration to young people who need to believe that anything is possible if they try.

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