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What is "founder mode"?

We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more...

Sadly, I hired a number of bad executives, but the techniques above generally allowed me to identify them pretty quickly, and we ended up firing a lot of senior people. We raised hundreds of millions of dollars, so when new employees turned up to a fancy office with catered lunches they believed they had joined a company like Google, and everything slowed down. I’ve shared some of my views here - I would insist that all CEOs stay connected to the details of their product, have an incredibly high bar for quality, manage for output, and delegate only to the extent that your leaders have earned your trust.

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