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How amazing is the post-exit career of the average great founder? What if the success of the "really great founders" similarly has quite a bit of randomness inv
by elgenie 10y ago
How amazing is the post-exit career of the average great founder? What if the success of the "really great founders" similarly has quite a bit of randomness involved? The halo effect and associated myth-making doesn't get applied nearly as much to employee #1.
- pw 10y agoI feel like I've struck a nerve in some way and would love to better understand what's fueling your response. Why do you feel like you have to defend first employees?
- pw 10y agoI think you might have a point about the "post-exit career of the average great founder" in that it's usually not that impressive. Larry and Sergey certainly would qualify as "great founders", given their level of success, and, while they continue to run Google competently, they really haven't done anything else (Google still really only has one line of business, after all). Whereas on the other hand, we have someone like Bezos who, with AWS, has created not one, but two ten billion dollar plus businesses and whose ambition seems to be boundless. Or, of course, Elon.