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保罗·格雷厄姆:创始人模式·第3则
保罗·格雷厄姆《《创始人模式》》· Founder Mode · 领导 · 财富 · 投资 · 行动
But this m.o. is so much less effective that to founders it feels broken. There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is. In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. But we can infer the existence of another mode from the dismay of founders who've tried it, and the success of their attempts to escape from it. There are as far as I know no books specifically about founder mode. Business schools don't know it exists. All we have so far are the experiments of individual founders who've been figuring it out for themselves.
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https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html
定位:Essay, additional excerpt 3 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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这种经理人模式对创始人来说效率低得多,感觉像公司坏了。创始人能做经理人做不到的事,不做就觉得不对,因为确实不对。实际上有两种运营公司的方式:创始人模式和经理人模式。至今硅谷多数人默认规模化创业公司就要切换到经理人模式。但从创始人尝试后的沮丧和逃离后的成功,可以推断另一种模式存在。据我所知没有书专门讲创始人模式,商学院也不知道它存在,我们只有个别创始人的实验。
上下文
格雷厄姆提出“创始人模式”与“经理人模式”的区分,指出后者被默认,前者尚缺系统总结。
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你的公司是否在规模化时被迫切换到经理人模式?你感觉哪里不对?
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