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There are two ways to run a company — founder mode and manager mode — and Silicon Valley has wrongly assumed that scaling a startup means switching to the second.

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  1. Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
    In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode.

    ↗Founder Modepaulgraham.com

    1 Sept 2024

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