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Cult of the Founder (pando.com)
2 points by bootload on March 1, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"The cult of the founder came from a good place-- many VCs did overreach in the late 1990s and treated founders like shit. Mark Zuckerberg has proven that a 21-year-old kid doesn’t need a grown up CEO to run his company. But that doesn’t mean that founders are gods who should never be challenged."

Great observation and even-handed. Founders are inexperienced and need a lot of guidance to over-come their deficiencies. This comes with time and prudent advice. That is if founders are capable of taking it.




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