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Fortune
Orianna Rosa Royle

Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz was told he’d need to replace his entire leadership team for the business to reach unicorn status

Alex Bouaziz, Deel's CEO (Credit: Courtesy of Fight or Fight PR)

Entrepreneurs perhaps expect to lose sleep (and all sense of control over their inbox) when scaling their venture from a startup into a unicorn. However, one millennial founder was warned he’d have to also lose his entire leadership team in the process. 

When Alex Bouaziz launched the HR platform Deel in 2019, he was just 25 years old. Although he had already put his weight behind a couple of “nice but very small scale” startups, he insists that this was a “completely different beast”.

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