Founder Mode
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2024
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The conventional wisdom 'founders should learn to manage like trained executives' is wrong. Steve Jobs ran Apple by skip-level meetings, deep involvement, and refusing to delegate the things that mattered. 'Manager mode' optimizes for legibility; founder mode optimizes for the company. Triggered an industry-wide reckoning when published.
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September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway, for the first time in his life, forgot to take notes. I'm not going to try to reproduce it here. Instead…
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