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🆚 Founder Mode vs Manager Mode

👉 Understand how VCs think and identify winning founders based on these parameters

👋 Hi there - it’s Egemen. Thanks for reading this edition of Scalable.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (nothing wrong with that), Paul Graham just shook up the startup world earlier this week with an article he put in his website.

Founder Mode vs Manager Mode.

I’m actually glad somebody finally sparked a fire to start this debate. After observing and hearing about some founders “just winging it” or “barely pushing forward”, a similar theme has been in my mind.

This week, we’re covering the mindset of a typical founder that VCs likely favor - or so as the rumors say.

TLDR: Always think like a bootstrapping founder, I’d advise.

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