Imagine we got up the mountain and then somebody was dropped from a helicopter,

having never walked up the mountain, and you tell them,

okay, now you lead this group up the next mountain.

Can you imagine how hard it be for that person to drop from the sky?

Or maybe they joined a third of the way up the mountain,

but they weren't there at the very beginning.

You see, a founder brings three things

that a professional manager doesn't have.

The first thing a founder has is they're the biological parent.

So you can love something, but when you're

the biological parent of something, like it came from you,

it is you. It is you.

There is a deep passion in love.

The second thing a founder has is they have the permission, right? Like, I can't tell another child what to do,

but if they were my child, I probably could.

I have the permission.

And so you have a permission.

I could re-brand the company,

and a professional manager

would probably come and say, I can't do that, but I know how we named it. I know how we

branded it. So you know what you can change. And the third thing that a founder brings is you

built it so you know how to rebuild it. You know the freezing temperature of a company. You know

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