Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Chris Kuenne, entrepreneurship lecturer at Princeton, and John Danner, senior fellow at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business talk about one of the least understood factors that leads to success at scale: the personality of the company founder. Their research describes four distinct types of highly successful entrepreneurial personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain. While popular culture currently celebrates big-ego personalities in the mold of Steve Jobs, the interview guests show how different kinds of people succeed at that level. Kuenne and Danner are co-authors of the new book, “Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win.”

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0:20.2	listen. Welcome to the HBRIDIA Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green-Karmichael.
0:38.0	Big Ego's Brand Vision's Magnetic Personalities. That's the image of a startup founder. In this
0:45.1	cult of the founder magazine cover stories revere the exceptional men who
0:49.2	build their ideas into booming multi-billion dollar businesses that put mere
0:53.7	unicorns to shame. It's so exaggerated that the TV series Silicon
0:58.2	Valley parodies it in this scene when a founder preps first stage
1:02.2	presentation.
1:03.0	I want you to hit me with a spotlight.
1:04.2	Bam!
1:05.2	And a hard spot.
1:06.0	Better yet, do you have those spot lights that
1:08.5	come up from the ground?
1:10.0	I can check.
1:10.6	OK, so two of those, one on each side, and then one in the center so that it casts my shadow behind me, like a giant looking over his own shoulder.
1:18.0	And then at that point we've got some photos that we're going to throw up on the big screen.
1:22.0	Photos? Yeah, you know, just a few. some photos that we're going to throw up on the big screen.
1:22.5	Photos.
1:23.2	Yeah, you know, just a few.
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