> I struggle to see "founder mode" as something that scales. Is there not some self-selection bias occurring here, given the audience "included a lot of the mos

> I struggle to see "founder mode" as something that scales. Is there not some self-selection bias occurring here, given the audience "included a lot of the most successful founders we've funded"? That's what the article is about. The "common knowledge" is that it doesn't scale at all, that as soon as you become an established company you need professional managers. Paul provides counterexamples that prove it can scale and when it does it benefits the company immensely. He is hesitant to recommend this management mode outright because he doesn't know: - what exactly do these founders do that makes their management more effective than business administration - what the limits of founder management are - how to trace the limits across the org chart