If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.
You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
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.
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