Paul Graham - Founder Mode: Summary
https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html
This essay is awesome.
But I'm sorry did Paul Graham ever found a company himself in the last 20-30 years?
SabChangaSi
Stealth
18 days ago
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.
Shorter attention span and they complain/worry about AI taking their jobs😅🤷🏻♂️🤦🏼♂️
ntrhopi
Student
18 days ago
whole indian education system is Designed to produce high quality professional fakers
Bumpy_Stock
Stealth
18 days ago
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.
AdeptFowl5
Stealth
18 days ago
Their videos get on my nerves. Sound very cocky and know it all types somehow.
jinyang
Stealth
18 days ago
"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!
GlassSkin63
Stealth
18 days ago
Tl:dr:
Founders not micromanaging enough. Let's do more. Fk pg and his cult.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
18 days ago
Someone document Founder mode. So we can better understand it.
Somehow it feels a lot of information may be lost in skipping levels
Realitycheque
Student
18 days ago
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
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TheOatmeal
Stealth
18 days ago
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
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! 👇
BuzzingSheep
Student
17 days ago
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.
Damaru
Stealth
17 days ago
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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