Founder mode, deceptive copy, too much confetti, Figsigners

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“That doesn’t strike as shockingly new, right? (…) It’s clear that the CEO is the top manager of a company, therefore “founder mode” is simply a style of management. Not only that, but it’s also the most trivial form of management: as a founder, you oversee everything personally, and people are mere executors of your ideas. If there is a decision to make, or a problem to fix, you have to jump in personally to make an arbitrary call.”

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