founder mode

“So I think when a founder's in founder mode, what they are doing, and if they're doing it well, what they're doing is really deeply understanding the business and then figuring out when to use their power as a founder to either tweak things and send something …”

“Now, I think the way to use that effectively as a head of product is to recognize that they have that power to figure out how to use that power to get the things done that you know are best for the company. So I always think about, like, I have all the people …”

“I think it's often easy as a leader to say, I'm not going to roll up my sleeves and get into the details of the business or ask a lot of detailed questions about the business because you want to empower people and make them successful. And what I've found is t…”

“It's not manager mode is bad. It's the greatest CEOs know when to calibrate which one is needed.”

“Intuition comes from, in my point of view, A deep understanding of self and the capacity to get quiet and be well resourced. Meaning you've slept well and you've eaten well and you have enough love in your world. And I think what founder mode can confuse is my…”

“It's just that founder mode, the founder run company, I think this has an easier time existing because people dislike the people who are Pumping heat into a thing, you know, people fight them, people politic them out. And if the boss is like this, boss can pro…”

“You want to build a scaled leadership team. You have to be willing to have them make boneheaded decisions. And that's really, really hard, especially if we're quote in founder mode, driving all the decisions.”

“Founder mode. I think a lot of people have taken to never hire anybody with experience. And that's also bad advice in that look, somebody who knows how to do something can really accelerate your thing.”

“That's to me the real founder mode is, can you have the courage to tell your team and your investors that this isn't it?”