[tlb]

There's no valid way to get a statistic on how founder/professional CEOs cause success.

Using the methodology I think they use, the statistics are dominated by the fact that only fairly successful companies are able to hire a professional CEO at all. A company that starts and goes nowhere (perhaps due to the idea being bad) is always in the founder-CEO column.

It's probably also true that companies with multiple offices are more successful than companies with a single office. And companies with a superbowl commercial are more successful than the average company without one. But that doesn't imply you should do either for your early-stage company.