Folks, I'm talking about something on today's show that doesn't get talked about enough,

and I encourage everybody to write it down, think about it, pray about it, form a small committee

about it. It's called founder mode. Everyone look it up, founder mode, founder mode. The man who's

known for coining the phrase founder mode is Paul Graham. Paul Graham is the guy who helped to launch

Dropbox, Reddit, Airbnb, and over a

thousand successful startups. He talks about founder mode. And he says that founder mode is this

mode where you as the entrepreneur, you as the owner, in order to be successful, to grow a company

like Dropbox, to grow a company like Airbnb, to grow a company like Reddit, you have to actually do the work.

You have to meet the customers. You have to actually make the product. You have to talk to upset

customers. You have to talk to happy customers. You have to be involved in making the product.

You have to know every aspect of the company. And Paul Graham says this flies in the face of all conventional business consulting.

Most business consultants say, no, no, no.

You need to delegate to elevate to elevate.

You need to delegate to elevate.

You need to work on your business, not in your business.

You need to take a step out and not get into the nitty gritty.

But Paul Graham says you will never get out of the day to day unless you obsessively get

into the details.

And here to talk about it is my good friend from belovedcheascakes.com.

She's in the business.

She's actually in the back room of the business right now.

Joining us from Beloved Cheesecakes live from Oregon.

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