Founder mode examples I've noticed: 1. Steve Jobs approach: - Multiple teams tackling the same problem with different approaches (done for Mac OS X and iPhone

Founder mode examples I've noticed: 1. Steve Jobs approach: - Multiple teams tackling the same problem with different approaches (done for Mac OS X and iPhone) - Let the best approach win 2. Nat Friedman's take: "The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful. Great individuals should be fully empowered to exercise their judgment. The goal is not to avoid mistakes; the goal is to achieve uncorrelated levels of excellence in some dimension. The downsides are worth it" 3. Stay connected to the customer - Have a separate early adopter version of your product even when your company is big - Founders taking customer calls (Eric Yuan, Zoom) - Checking customer notes on X (Brian Chesky does this) - Reading external cold emails from customers to the CEO, and replying to some (Steve Jobs and Bezos did this) 4. Stay connected to the reality of the company - Anyone internally can email the CEO and suggest ideas, critique things 5. Have redundancy - For any areas of the company that are critical, run two separate versions for as long as possible - Humans have two of basically everything critical (except the brain, likely due to energy constraints): reproductive organs, hands, legs, eyes, ears, nostrils, why don't companies