Q of my fears, some of my doubts, things that I've talked about in some of the episodes. And you'll hear more about that, uh, with this interview with Mark. So without further ado, let's get to the interview. So I've been a founder for a number of years, and so I'm quite biased in my understanding of what being a founder means. What does being a founder mean to you?
A Well, you're certainly setting the tone for the entire enterprise, the entire team as it develops. You have a really disproportionate effect on the culture of your organization. Uh, if only because you were there first. Um, I mean, you're going to be pretty much the one constant. That everyone is going to have unless and until you leave the company yourself. Um. So I think that, that that's, that's really, that's really it. You know, I mean, it, I think that so many people become founders, not really understanding what it really means to lead. Um, There was, there was some great piece of research that was done about 18 months ago. Um, and I, you know, and I have, I took a lot of lessons from it, but it wasn't really about my space or about marketing or anything like that, but it was, it was all about the fact that, um, a lot of people become founders and they really, they've never really led anything. They, they have been managers. They may have even been people managers, but they've never actually been entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial, uh, inside of a large company. And, and so it's, it's a, you know, they get thrown into the deep end of the pool or they throw themselves in the deep end of the pool. Um, and it, and it's, uh, it's a big swim. Right. I mean, as you and I were talking about earlier, uh, you know, we have tended to lionize, uh, what it means to be an entrepreneu…
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