Gil: First-time founders mistakenly project their comfort with chaos onto employees
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Investor Elad Gil discusses leadership pitfalls for early-career founders managing teams for the first time.
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“As a founder, for example, you project the way that you act onto employees if you haven't managed before, and founders are perfectly fine with chaos and uncertainty and risk, and, but most people aren't. Most of your employees want a stable direction. They want to feel like the thing is working and they want to know where to go.”
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