Why "founder mode" is a rebranding for micromanaging, top-down leaders
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#2Bill Gates still runs product at Microsoft, bad counter example...
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#3Bill Gates still runs product at Microsoft, bad counter example...
And their product is so great..?
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#5Bill Gates still runs product at Microsoft, bad counter example...
What product?
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#6All these middle managers are complaining about founder-mode espousing micromanagement.
Yet, when given the freedom, these middle-managers themselves abuse it to micromanage their own reports via measures for stack ranking, butts on seats, # of commits, or other such BS proxy metrics.
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#8Funny how there isn't any desire to go Founder mode on the less exciting parts of the business. HR, compliance, facilities...
If you were good at product but bad at business hire a business person and accept that CEO is a different skill set. Don't wrap it up in some egotistic 'once more unto the breach' nonsense.
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#9Founders will be managing (perhaps future) senior executives, not junior managers. Senior execs are given a lot of leeway (budgets, staff, goal setting) and will have massive impact on the “shape” of the business overall. As such they are willful people, and not really “micromanagable”. These are absolutely the kind of people you need in these positions.
With this willfulness comes the challenge of “herding the cats” to an achieve an ultra-focused vision. This is what requires “founder mode”.
No talented founder will resort to typical junior manager mircromanagement antics as it would drive the company into the ground. Instead, they seem to have some kind of “reality distortion field” ability, what we’re calling “founder mode” here. The challenge is discovering the parts and pieces that make up “founder mode”… we know it exists but don’t really understand it.
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#10of course an accelerator would dislike c levels... they would have more people to convince. if there are no c levels in their portfolio, they only have to push the founder for a pivot etc.