The final sentence: "Hire leaders, not managers."<p>Left unsaid: This is incredibly hard to do well.<p>Even if you base your hiring on solid evidence of past successes, you're never going to know for sure whether the person is going to be able to achieve the same sorts of successes within your organization, with its own unique culture, structure, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, etc.<p>It's made all the more difficult by the fact that you have to be able to distinguish between true leaders and those who have ascended the corporate ladder through Batesian mimicry (basically by superficially resembling true leaders). So it's really tricky to tell one from the other under the constrained environment of an job interview.
Honestly this whole yack shaving around Founder Mode and variants of it is getting really tired and tiring.<p>The only thing to be said is that every company is unique at a unique point in time and space. Very little <i>truly actionable feedback</i> is to be learned from either successes or failures of the past.<p>You are on your own.
fuck founder mode. Work in "fuck off" mode.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1fgv248/fuck_founder_mode_work_in_fuck_off_mode/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1fgv248/fuck_founder_...</a>