What Founder Mode Really Means

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@chapterme 2 ай бұрын

Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:17 - Intro 00:27 - Founder Mode Origin 02:01 - The Core Message 02:55 - Late Stage Founders 04:33 - Management Layers 05:37 - Bureaucracy 08:44 - Great Managers 09:47 - Investors vs Founders 10:38 - Viral Ideas 12:09 - The Blame Game 12:52 - Outro

@yashgupta417 3 ай бұрын

i was having a bad day and here comes Dalton and Michael. Thank you YC!❤

@neugey 3 ай бұрын

Let's be honest - If you can't cut through the bureaucracy of the company you founded, the usual go-to is to sell the company and found another one 😄

@Stravia123 2 ай бұрын

No. You make sure to have the ability to hire and fire anyone you need to by the board.

@Stravia123 2 ай бұрын

I told my investor that the first 100 ppl we hire i an responsible for

@Stravia123 2 ай бұрын

It makes evrything more simple. Make sure to have bulletproof agreements

@yungjedi312 2 ай бұрын

@@Stravia123

@onetwokaafour 2 ай бұрын

@@Stravia123who is on your profile picture? Yuri?

@DrNeelDas 2 ай бұрын

I knew this episode was coming and I was looking forward to it.

@vincentschulz9355 2 ай бұрын

Moral: Keep your company as lean as possible.

@Stravia123 2 ай бұрын

Make sure you the founder can hire and fire whoever is needed. Thats key to not let the company shadow you

@RuhulAminIslam-rd7mv 2 ай бұрын

@adastra8218 2 ай бұрын

Or hire people that are already mission and culturally aligned at the beginning

@Stravia123 2 ай бұрын

@@adastra8218 hi. When you go from startup to scaleup with minorityh voting rights; usally happens during seed-series A round, this goes out the window. Then Money talks. So if your are a "builder" like myself, people will turn on you, bc they want to make their Investors happy.

@Stravia123 2 ай бұрын

@@adastra8218 very few can stay in for the long game purely bc of the mission and vision. Not bc people dont want to but bc they get desperate and irattional when there is lack of funds. You can perfectly only own% and still be in charge. Just need bulletproof agreements. Never trust people is my general rule.

@dark-dayone4939 2 ай бұрын

i have been waiting for these guys to talk about this forever..

@shady4tv 2 ай бұрын

I use this as a playbook on the bottom too. I'm an Engineer and know that leadership that has active involvement in the day to day of my role isn't "Micromanagement" - It's collaboration. A manager that has no idea what I do is going to be weak when the rubber meets the road and a situation makes it to their desk. They will be ill prepared to handle it and I'll need to waste a bunch of time and resources just getting the caught up on the situation. A leader that's involved can block in a preemptive and strategic manner.

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

so in one sentence, founder mode is about navigating and tackling the organizational and bureaucratic issues a startup encounters as they scale to a growth stage or late stage company doing tens to hundreds of millions in annual revenue. correct?

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

and, the discussion and key takeaways of founder mode do not apply to small startup teams (including YC batch startups) because those startups have yet to scale their company to a size where those "founder mode" organizational and bureaucratic issues will come up (i.e. the startup is too small).

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

i think one common way "founder mode" was misused on twitter was basically someone would post about doing something scrappy in their two-person startup, and jokingly refer to the scrappy thing they did as evidence of "founder mode." i guess they are a founder, in that scrappy mode, but they aren't in what paul graham, brian chesky, et al. defined as "founder mode."

@TreeYogaSchool 2 ай бұрын

I feel like Dalton Caldwell is literally one of the most legendary people to ever live.

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

3:27 wait founder mode doesnt apply to small startups? i thought the whole idea of founder mode was that it came from running small startups, and how that mode had to be preserved even as your company scales.

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

ok, 8:30 answers my question. makes sense.

@george_davituri 2 ай бұрын

finally the real meaning of ''founder mode'' explained.

@ritwiksingh4937 2 ай бұрын

not really it’s more like two person talk having an experience with startup’s from a very long time.

@george_davituri 2 ай бұрын

@@ritwiksingh4937 quite really, as everyone was speaking about it with different way and they clarified this topic.. Cannot disagree, yes they have huge experience in startups and beyond it.

@gadget00 Ай бұрын

hope it is sarcasm; they didn't explained anything tbh LOL just chatted

@george_davituri Ай бұрын

@@gadget00 sarcasm ?! hmm from which side, my message doesn't contains it. In general Dalton and Michael have great sense of humour. Now about this topic: key takeaway, if you are a founder at the early stage take it easy you can skip this discussion, on the other hand if you have large company you need to be balancing between founder - manager mode - hiring people - team relations - by taking advice careful or following your gut. Hope now you get this 😃🙂

@gadget00 Ай бұрын

@@george_davituri I got because I went to read Paul Graham essay on this. Sadly the video wasn't so clear about it

@robsherwood5932 2 ай бұрын

Was there really no recording of the original Founder mode talk? If not, uhm… could he like give it again and have someone record it?

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

curious, when you talk about this, do you have to get an OK from paul graham first

@foundational 3 ай бұрын

I wonder if 100m arr founders watch YC videos.

@mtgphil42 3 ай бұрын

sadly, not, but they should

@krimo10 2 ай бұрын

I think the idea is for them to watch these a few years before they hit 100m arr, and a few months before they apply to YC

@dennisjeong6723 2 ай бұрын

This is just a big PSA to tell early founders to not get involved in this discourse

@depdep5584 2 ай бұрын

I know at least 1 who do

@sputnik8543 2 ай бұрын

Founder Mode needed a chesky explanation, a paul graham essay and a YC video; either no one knows what it is and is fitting narrative around success (for every chesky theres startups /scaleups who started and failed ad nauseam ) or it truly is that profound. Given the number of reasons to start a startup having never been more lucid, I do think this is an overhyped overblown piece, that over the long run results in poor imitiation with founders justifying their tyrannical behaviour as founder mode

@TonyHanation 2 ай бұрын

Your last sentence is key. Too many founders just copy without thinking from first principles or validating with real experience. Thats scary.

@HungrysitesRu 2 ай бұрын

Why do you call a business with a product market fit a startup?

@Winger222 2 ай бұрын

I thought this was going to be about cocaine....

@raphaelschaad4309 2 ай бұрын

Triggered by All In? 😅

@collinrutherford2324 2 ай бұрын

It's vital for founders to assert their vision while still being receptive to investor insights. What approaches have you seen work well in balancing these relationships?

@jermaineconcern1539 2 ай бұрын

Yes.

@revanthsaianupoju4400 2 ай бұрын

Release the talk please...

@dixonyamada6969 2 ай бұрын

do they even record them?

@revanthsaianupoju4400 2 ай бұрын

@@dixonyamada6969 noep! they don't i guess, but with this hype i want to watch full talk!

@mevist77 2 ай бұрын

Interesting to watch, but hard to find relatable, just like the ZIRP video

@berg_productions 2 ай бұрын

I was born in founders mode

@peterkay1968 3 ай бұрын

😊

@MubashirullahD 2 ай бұрын

Still don't know what it means but I get its nothing to think about

@benholmquist3589 2 ай бұрын

11th

@alexpirine 2 ай бұрын

10th

@sadiqkhawaja7019 29 күн бұрын

A problem I hope to one day have.

@eachlabs 2 ай бұрын

Summary (Powered by Each AI) - As startups scale, layers of management can distance founders from daily operations and customer interactions. - Brian emphasizes that founders can and should cut through bureaucracy to stay connected and effectively lead. - Hiring executives who align with the founder's vision is crucial; they should facilitate, not hinder, the founder's involvement. Takeaways: - Founders should develop techniques to stay connected despite company growth. - Cutting through bureaucracy is essential for effective leadership. - Aligning with executives who support the founder's vision maintains company culture. - Active founder involvement leads to better decision-making and company success.