> Most of the successful startups are based on a pure, authentic vision of a founder who is absolutely convinced about their vision for the future. Is this tha

> Most of the successful startups are based on a pure, authentic vision of a founder who is absolutely convinced about their vision for the future. Is this that different from how film studios work? Many successful films are based on a pure, authentic vision of an auteur after all? I also don't know if your assertion is necessarily true either. I've been at a modestly successful startup and I have to say most of our early successes came from all the people around our Founder who pushed back against, and checked his more impetuous and self-destructive tendencies. I think the Founder story is, as often as not, an act of self-aggrandizing myth-making. In my company's case, our Founder's best skill was having a nose for talent, but his notions of how to build good software were wildly off-base. It is akin to the "Great Man" theory of history or even the auteurship theory around filmmaking that erases all the surrounding actors and the interplay of forces that drive the eventual outcome.