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Founder Mode

Founder Mode

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Manager Mode

Manager Mode

  • Founders often receive bad advice on scaling companies, particularly to adopt "manager mode" over "founder mode."
  • "Manager mode" advocates delegating responsibilities, but for founders, this can be harmful to the company.
  • Founders struggle with advice that assumes they must run companies as professional managers.
  • Business schools teach "manager mode," missing the nuances of how founders should lead.

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Founder Mode

Founder Mode

  • Founders face unique pressures and challenges that professional managers don’t understand.
  • "Founder mode" could help companies scale without losing their original vision and dynamism.
  • Steve Jobs ran an annual retreat for 100 key people, not based on hierarchy, but importance.
  • Founders engaging in "skip-level" meetings might be more effective than traditional management structures.
  • Many founders experience disastrous results when following advice to delegate and remove themselves from details.

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PAUL GRAHAM

VCs who haven’t been founders themselves don’t know how founders should run companies.

PAUL GRAHAM

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TAKEAWAY

Founders should trust their instincts, avoid conventional "manager mode," and engage deeply to scale their companies effectively.

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IDEAS CURATED BY

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ぬ-shaped person: Passionate learner having diverse interests. Tech entrepreneur. Obsessive optimizer. Uncomfortably skeptic and curious. Suffering from tsundoku.

CURATOR'S NOTE

Paul Graham explores "founder mode" vs. "manager mode" in running companies, inspired by Brian Chesky's insights about scaling Airbnb successfully.

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