This essay is awesome. 

But I'm sorry did Paul Graham ever found a company himself in the last 20-30 years?

Hes founded the biggest accelerator in the world that runs like a successful company with employees, customers (startups) and all other metrics that are used to judge companies. Search up y combinator.

Product Owner

Data Scientist

Wake up babe, Paul G just dropped a new essay

Founder

Product Manager

Corporate Strategist

Shorter attention span and they complain/worry about AI taking their jobs😅🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Software Engineer

Software Test - QA

Bro spreading delusion to attract delusional founders. 
  
 Not just Paul Graham, Y combinator YT channel posts bs is like 
  
 > How to startup without any idea 
 > How to startup in 10 mins 
  
 Make it sound so simple, so no one can see the pain and frustration.

Their videos get on my nerves. Sound very cocky and know it all types somehow.

Business Development Manager

whole indian education system is Designed to produce high quality professional fakers

"Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. Sounds great when it's described that way, doesn't it? Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.” 
  
 Pure gold!

Business Analyst

Investor

Someone document Founder mode. So we can better understand it. 
 Somehow it feels a lot of information may be lost in skipping levels

Big companies go down the drain, because the professional CEOs aren't paranoid about stuff  
  
 Being Paranoid doesn't mean being worried about everything all the time or not letting any fire run.. it's not about the size of input (or lack of) either ... it's about ability to visualize the potential size of the outcome that arises from certain actions (or inaction) 
  
 Nobody can be as paranoid as the founder themselves. You should be really really lucky to find a professional CEO who's as paranoid as you are. 
  
 It's also about willing to not let the status quo/ popular opinion determine the direction (for eg WFH / remote for your org). You are a founder because you went against status quo @BiryaniEnthu  
 .

Consultant

Tl:dr: 
 Founders not micromanaging enough. Let's do more. Fk pg and his cult.

Program Manager

Subh subh Bangalore ki personality change kar di is admi ne

Paul g and y combinator is overhyped tbh. Seeing their latest posts shared by their founding team and partners it's evident they either don't understand tech or are over hyping AI so much just to over value the products / startups they have invested in . 
 At the end of the day it's just about signalling and marketing and creating hype . Stopped taking them seriously lately

Product Marketing Manager

Is there a way to subscribe to his essays?  
 My first time reading one and it’s gold! Also feel free to drop your suggestions as well! 👇

Lmao who tf needs bullet points of an essay that already is like a summary

Systems Engineer

But as the company structure grows, I think manager mode is kind of imposed on you by the situations. Also these days new ways of running the companies are highly romanticised.

Founder mode basically means "Aaj tahelka omelette banega"

Software Developer

Paul Graham’s essay on Founder Mode has created debate among manager modes. He said not to confuse founder mode with manager mode. He is the co-founder of the popular startup accelerator Y Combinator. In his essay, he created a debate as to whether a founder should just delegate work to his employees or get down the muck with them. His Founder Mode idea came from the talk of Airbnb’s chief executive Brian Chesky. He thinks that many startups to scale up switch up to manager mode but often struggle.

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read here: https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html
TLDR: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/founder-mode-by-paul-graham-tl-yfFETjNIQFep_ANjG2082Q

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I've moved on from 'Founder Mode' -> 'Fu*k it Mode'

Rounding up 2023, all of us learnt a ton. I'm sharing this one website which I found extremely interesting. It covers some fundamental mental models which would be helpful to many here.

Looking forward to what other Grapeviners 🍇 were upto this year.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

Tools for better thinking

[Thread] Share resources to the best thing you learnt this year.

https://www.first1000.co/ 
How companies acquired their first 1000 users/customers! Basically Growth hacks

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I really like reading great blogs. Paul Graham’s blogs are one of the more enjoyable ones to me and I constantly find myself reading through them again and again.

The writing is clear and has strongly incisive insights on the entrepreneurial path. 

This is an excellent read: http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

Looking forward to suggestions from you all.

[Thread] What is your go-to blog to read?

Founder mode is crap

What are the daily practices like reading, networking and can someone elaborate?
And how does he audit the course of evolution? Or course correct?

How does/should a Founder evolve overtime?

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Founder mode.

Is this guy for real?

Product Designer

I know it’s early, but it’s an extended weekend 😅

Share an article / post that made you go ‘Aha’ in the recent past. 

Let me start with one - would love to hear opinions on this.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Ffamily%2Farchive%2F2018%2F12%2Frich-people-happy-money%2F577231%2F

Weekend musings

Manager Mode >>> Founder Mode

Any thoughts on this. Why do Founders always portray themselves as superheroes? Is normal job only meant for peasants like us?

Founders be sharing quotes about life, learning and all sorts of things on social media, but when you see them in real, you'll get a clear sense of ego, pride and "I know it all" vibe, so clear in the way they talk. Please be a human first, founder second. 

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

Norman Schwarzkopf

Founders in today's era

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7155144061912240128/

Things can go downhill, that's understandable but reaching out to an investor of the said startup is basically the privileged folk trying to get even with the founder on fucking up. Thoughts?

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About the series - Asking questions that you generally don't find answers easily or think they are too basic to be asked
Idea originated here - https://share.gvine.app/utBVxDbxRZxLFgzS9

Expanding the question - Most founders have worked high profile roles before going full time in building something of their own. The uncertainty in finances, in most cases reduction from the lifestyle their salary allowed them to maintain, how do they navigate that?

[Startup Series] Q1. To founders, how do you manage with deflated lifestyles?

What unique challenges and opportunities do founding designers face? 

Starting out a new role tomorrow, any tips and advice that might come in handy?

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Sales Manager ab se PM. 
On a serious note, how many agree with this. Pls no hate for any job function, yu to har cheez imp hai wrna kuch bhi nhi hai

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