I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
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One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.
There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.
If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
Starting a company and being a founder is really hard, and most companies fail. You really have to have a deep commitment and belief in it and be willing to see it through many ups and downs.
Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank.
I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.