The founder mode at its core, though, is about the single principle to be in the details.

Great leadership is presence, not absence. So to go back to my lesson, it is not good for you to

hire great people and trust them to do their job. How do you know that they're doing a good job

if you're not in the details? And by the way, I'll use a golf analogy, not that I play golf, but I've taken a couple lessons once,

and the instructor, and I suck at it, but the instructor, like, they watch your golf swing.

And over time, the ideas you build muscle memory and the golf structures need to be it all day and that's what it should be like at a company you should start in the details and no one does this everyone hires executives and they

let them do their thing and then they find out a year later the whole thing has been wrong they've hired

people they shouldn't have hired and now you've got to get in the details and of course now their

confidence goes down. They always

inevitably leave the company. And we should actually do is start in the details, develop trust,

develop muscle memory, and then let go. So great leadership is presence, not absence.

You know the old saying, A players, hire A players, B players, Hires, Hire C players. I would like to amend it. B players hire lots of C players.

Not just a few, but a lot. Because those are the kind of people that like building empires,

but they're also the people, if you can't capably do your job, you don't hire people better

than you, and a person less capable of you can't do the job. So you need like three

incapable people because one incapable person can't actually do all the work. But now three

incapable people are just going in three different directions, creating all these meetings

and all this administrative tax. Every CEO, I think, with only a few exceptions, should

be the chief product officer of their company.

Because isn't the most important thing of a company to make a product and shouldn't the person knows the most about the product to be the CEO?

And yet, you are told to be separate from your product.

And I noticed this thing where there was more bureaucracy, there were these divisions.

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