Startup Grind的动态

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If you just look historically at many of the important technology companies in the last 50 years, 100 years, and many of them are run by their founders for decades. And a lot of it has to do with with disruption. There's this cliche of founders that a lot of people believe are used to believe, which is that founders are too stubborn and founders get too locked into their original idea and they can't adapt as times change. We've actually found the opposite to be true. We've found that when a company is going to get disrupted, the person in many cases with the best odds of countering the disruption is the founder. And I think there's a couple of different reasons for that. I think 1 is the founder remembers when the business was nothing. The founder remembers what it was like when there was like nobody else in the office with you and when you carried out your own trash can. Like the founder remembers this thing used to be 0. And so the founders have a vision kind of in their heads, they kind of haunts them that says this thing used to be 0, now it's something it could be 0 again. And so when an existential threat like somebody coming in with a disruptive product occurs, the founder we often find is emotionally able to wrap their head around it and then able to actually. Figure out what to do about it because they know that if they don't, they're, they're, they're going to be in real trouble. The other thing we find with the founder mentality is that the founder can carry enormous moral weight inside the company To then be able to make the changes that are required when Steve Jobs, you know, goes into Apple and says times are changing and we need to do X&X is heresy compared to everything Apple had done up until that point, You know, as Steve Jobs, the founder is going to be able to convince the company that they have to do that, whereas a professional CEO shows up and says that and everybody's kind of like, oh, you know, I don't know.