J. Cal

Down at the Mongolian barbecue joint in Westwood. Listen, if you... If you've ever been to Madison Square Garden, you just hold up the number one and somebody will come talk to you. Somebody will come talk to you. All right. We've gotten through all the great housekeeping. And it's time to talk about founder mode. Founder mode.

Down at the Mongolian barbecue joint in Westwood. Listen, if you... If you've ever been to Madison Square Garden, you just hold up the number one and somebody will come talk to you. Somebody will come talk to you. All right. We've gotten through all the great housekeeping. And it's time to talk about founder mode. Founder mode.

On Sunday, the Y Combinator founder, Paul Graham, published an essay titled Founder Mode. It was based on a talk that Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky gave to a group of YC founders last week. where he said, hey, the advice I got on running a large company was to hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. He says he took that advice and the results were a disaster.

On Sunday, the Y Combinator founder, Paul Graham, published an essay titled Founder Mode. It was based on a talk that Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky gave to a group of YC founders last week. where he said, hey, the advice I got on running a large company was to hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. He says he took that advice and the results were a disaster.

So he studied how Steve Jobs ran Apple. And according to PG, Paul Graham, that is, a bunch of very successful founders in the audience, kind of nodded their head and said, Hey, that is similar to my experience. PG defines the world now in two ways, two philosophies for running a company manager mode versus founder mode in manager mode.

So he studied how Steve Jobs ran Apple. And according to PG, Paul Graham, that is, a bunch of very successful founders in the audience, kind of nodded their head and said, Hey, that is similar to my experience. PG defines the world now in two ways, two philosophies for running a company manager mode versus founder mode in manager mode.

That's just the conventional way of doing this, what you teach in business school, you hire good people, you give them room to do their jobs. You tell your direct reports what to do, they figure it out, you don't micromanage. Pichi says, he doesn't give too many specifics about Founder Mode. He kind of says, hey, we've got to figure out what this thing is.

That's just the conventional way of doing this, what you teach in business school, you hire good people, you give them room to do their jobs. You tell your direct reports what to do, they figure it out, you don't micromanage. Pichi says, he doesn't give too many specifics about Founder Mode. He kind of says, hey, we've got to figure out what this thing is.

So in some ways, this blog post to Moth was a way of starting the conversation. But he said... Things like less delegation and more hands-on. And if you haven't heard of it, skip level meetings. This is where the CEO will meet not with their manager or direct report, but maybe a group of people who report into that manager without the manager in the room.

So in some ways, this blog post to Moth was a way of starting the conversation. But he said... Things like less delegation and more hands-on. And if you haven't heard of it, skip level meetings. This is where the CEO will meet not with their manager or direct report, but maybe a group of people who report into that manager without the manager in the room.

It's a notable and well-known management technique to kind of get information to the CEO a little bit faster. And what do you think? Chamathas got a lot of attention on a Sunday. Did you have any takeaways from it?

It's a notable and well-known management technique to kind of get information to the CEO a little bit faster. And what do you think? Chamathas got a lot of attention on a Sunday. Did you have any takeaways from it?

Sacks, did you read the piece? You clearly saw all the memes and, you know, I guess, kudos for the piece on X this past weekend. What are your thoughts on it, generally speaking? Anything that you took from it that was notable, or is this just some obvious stuff?

Sacks, did you read the piece? You clearly saw all the memes and, you know, I guess, kudos for the piece on X this past weekend. What are your thoughts on it, generally speaking? Anything that you took from it that was notable, or is this just some obvious stuff?

And we've seen in some of the big company sacks that they've cut out middle management because so much of the work was just being playing telephone and handing it to the next person that when you took out that swath of people at Facebook or Google or Microsoft, the company seemed to work better because you're taking out a layer of overpaid people.

And we've seen in some of the big company sacks that they've cut out middle management because so much of the work was just being playing telephone and handing it to the next person that when you took out that swath of people at Facebook or Google or Microsoft, the company seemed to work better because you're taking out a layer of overpaid people.

Is there something wrong with that model? You're kind of looking at it, and I'm kind of hearing a little bit of a tone there. Maybe I'm reading into it. That doesn't match reality.

Is there something wrong with that model? You're kind of looking at it, and I'm kind of hearing a little bit of a tone there. Maybe I'm reading into it. That doesn't match reality.

Kind of why Common Air is marketing, wouldn't you say, is like to kind of put themselves next to the founder and say, hey, we're the only ones who really care about founders. Everybody else is out to get them.

Kind of why Common Air is marketing, wouldn't you say, is like to kind of put themselves next to the founder and say, hey, we're the only ones who really care about founders. Everybody else is out to get them.