Founder mode can’t work. Be maximalist

Welcome all possibilities and paradoxes, have a sustaining for what you can become, and build a culture to realize that vision.

The tech industry was recently abuzz with a post from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham on “founder mode.” In a nutshell, his concept explores the need for leaders to act in urgent, hands-on ways, and not surrender control to professional managers, who drive a founder’s company into the ground with their unimaginative, slow-moving ways.