September 12, 2024
It’s the phrase on the tip of everyone’s tongue: founder mode.
The term was coined – or at least minted – in a recent blog post by YCombinator cofounder Paul Graham, summarizing a talk by Airbnb founder Brian Chesky.
“The theme of Brian’s talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken,” he wrote. Rather than hiring people to manage his business, and setting up a traditional hierarchy, Chesky followed Steve Jobs’ example by spreading himself across the entire business, engaging with as many areas as possible and staying close to the day-to-day detail, even as the company scaled.
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September 12, 2024
