Reflecting on Founder Mode

Oxide and Friends

With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. While there is plenty to quibble over, there's also the kernel of an important idea: how to balance experience, novel thinking, and limited time? Also stay tuned as they share a years old "ego con".

Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Paul Graham Founder Mode
• Bryan Reflecting on Founder Mode
• Tim O'Reilly How I Failed
• Camille Fournier Founder Create Managers
• Bryan Chesky interview we mention
• OxF: on Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
• Seagull Management
• How to Castrate a Bull NOT AN ENDORSEMENT; DO NOT READ
• The ego con: Non-Stop Hitz

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