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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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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