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Traditional advice given to founders as they scale is “hire good people and give them room to do their jobs”. That is disastrous advice. Everyone is talking about it and it’s true: every leader and founder needs to operate in Founder-mode. Brian Chesky recently spoke of this and it’s great nomenclature on how businesses should be run. For years, founders and leaders have been told to hire great people and leave them to run the business. A ‘set-it-and-forget-it’ mentality. The reality is, that doesn’t work. Every single founder and leader NEEDS to be in the details. Founders and leaders have unique insights, an understanding of the business, and an outsized level of care toward the business. They are the superpower of a business; pulling up too high out of weeds removes that superpower. I think this expands beyond just founders but applies to all leaders. Leaders can act in Founder-mode. If you’re a leader or a founder, stay in the details. Have high trust with who you hire, but don’t work at such a high level you leave it to everyone else to run all the details of the business.