Founder Mode Is Real (And Airbnb, Flexport & Apple Prove It)
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips
Eric Siu and Neil Patel
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ποΈ 2 July 2026
β±οΈ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Does your experience with AI sound a little something like this? |
| 0:03.1 | You've been prompting for 20 minutes. |
| 0:04.8 | The output is polished, confident, and completely useless. |
| 0:08.5 | That's what happens when AI doesn't know anything about your business. |
| 0:11.6 | HubSpot's AI works with your actual customer data. |
| 0:14.5 | Every interaction and every signal your team has generated over time. |
| 0:17.9 | So instead of prompting and hoping, you ask once and ship it. Check out HubSpot.com, |
| 0:23.1 | the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. You know what? That goes back to the whole |
| 0:28.0 | concept of founder mode, which is what Paul Graham wrote about a few years ago. So he had Brian |
| 0:32.0 | Chesky, right? He was just saying of Airbnb. He was like, dude, we had hired all these |
| 0:36.7 | like professional, like, sea level people. And we hired all these layers and you're just like, you're supposed to let them do their thing or whatever. And he found that he wasn't operating the business to his life. It wasn't his business anymore. And he found like more and more, there's all these layers and all these, you know, layers of management where you just, you just couldn't make any decisions. And that's when the company was really struggling, right? And then he decided, I'm going to get rid of all the layers. I'm going to get rid of all these C level people. I'm going to get rid of all these. I'm going to run it my way. And now he's running an organization that is flatter and it's moving faster than it's ever moved. And it's no different than, um, Flexport CEO. He stepped out for a little bit. There's a professional CEO. Step back in, boom, it's moving again, right? And I think, so we're constantly, Steve Jobs, he got, sure, he got fired from Apple, and then it took him 12 years, I think, went next. And then eventually he got his way back into Apple, and then he really turned a company around, right? And so it just shows you again over and over. Founder mode, like you might say one person can only do so much, but I'm telling you, the founder usually has the most vision, and they have that invisible hammer where they can just make things happen. So use it if you're a founder. Yep. Yep. By the way, there's actually two questions here since we're live right now. |
| 1:46.8 | So I'm going to read this over from Ryan over here. So he says, he calls us the two agency goats here. |
| 1:53.0 | So he says, I run a B2B video production agency. What are your guys' thoughts on how AI will |
| 1:58.0 | disrupt the video production industry in the next few years. |
| 2:02.2 | So I think people still pay for ideation. I still think people pay for a lot of the behind |
| 2:09.7 | the scenes stuff. I don't think they pay, and they still pay for like video filming and all that |
| 2:14.7 | kind of stuff. They want more efficiencies on using technology. |
| 2:20.5 | Let's say editing is a huge cost or processing a video. |
| 2:24.2 | They want a lot of that stuff just done more efficiently. |
| 2:26.9 | But we don't see video recording agencies or B2B video agencies going away. |
| 2:34.1 | It's just more so people looking for them |
| 2:36.2 | for them to be more efficient. Now this doesn't mean you need to charge less. It means that you need |
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