You’re the visionary. The idea machine. The one who sees patterns, pivots fast, and drives momentum when no one else knows what to do next. That’s your founder magic. But founder magic doesn’t scale. Not unless you can turn it into something repeatable; something that lives outside your brain and powers great work even when…
You can’t hire your way out of a broken system. If you’re constantly buried in tasks, fixing your team’s mistakes, and still making every important decision yourself, you probably don’t have a headcount problem. You have a transfer problem. Most founders assume the answer is more people. But what they actually need is a way…
Not everyone can – or should – work at an early-stage startup. It’s hard, and it asks a lot of you. But, as founders, we make it way harder for ourselves when we don’t do the work to set our people up for success. For every one person who can survive in systemless chaos, there…