It starts innocently enough. You push harder during a big initiative. You clean up the pieces someone else should’ve handled. You take on every issue like it’s your personal responsibility to fix. And because you're fully committed to the success of your company, you convince yourself it’s ...
It’s easy to buy into the myth that the moment your company reaches product-market fit, your job as the founder is to get out of the way. Hire operators. Trust the process. Stay out of the weeds. It’s good advice — until it isn’t. Because great founders aren’t just visionaries. They’re polymaths. ...
If you want to build a great company (not just a “good enough” one, but a truly great one), you eventually run into this hard truth: Heroics don’t scale. It’s easy to celebrate the person who pulls the all-nighter, saves the client, or jumps in last-minute to close the deal. Those moments feel ...
