Maples: Defining characteristic of startup leaders is artistry, not business expertise
Mike Maples Jr. · #77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future · Mar 3, 2020 · at 32:34
Mike Maples Jr., founding partner at Floodgate, explains to Shane Parrish why standard business management frameworks fail to capture what makes great startup founders successful.
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“There is a, I believe a big element of startups where a business function is not the right way to describe an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs aren't experts in business functions as you and I would think about them. Yes, very often they're technical, but the defining characteristic usually of the leader is that they're an artist in the sense that they notice things that other normal people don't notice. And they present their ideas in ways that move people to act in ways that where they're abandoned their logic.”
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