I have worked with two coaches over the past six years, and they have helped me examine my own tendencies as a leader. There are many ways in which I think you could describe me as a “typical” founder: driven, detail oriented, uncomfortable with rules and process and hierarchy.
And so, when Paul Graham’s recent post, “Founder Mode,” came out, I was ready to like it. The speech by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky that he references is even one that I had heard a version of at an event in the past, so again, the ground was laid for me to like it.
