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