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Founder Mode
September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard.
Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. The way managers are taught to run companies seems to be like modular design in the sense that you treat subtrees of the org chart as black boxes. Thanks to Brian Chesky, Patrick Collison, Ron Conway, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ryan Petersen, Harj Taggar, and Garry Tan for reading drafts of this.
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