Founders

I haven’t missed a morning workout in almost a decade. Sometimes it’s just a stretch, sometimes it’s at the airport, but there’s always something. A lot of people see it as discipline, but it’s really just an addiction. Recently, I’ve been having conversations with a lot of founders, and we talk about how many of us were “diagnosed” with ADHD as adults, and how helpful Vyvanse has been. Some people ask: ...

Founders create problems. Operators solve them. I’ve met a lot of executives and CTOs who resonate with two things: They like to solve puzzles. They like to be given an end goal and just make it happen. The job of a founder is to identify opportunities (i.e. problems), set a vision for what a solution looks like, and build a team that’s enabled to get there. That idea, of course, comes with plenty of qualifiers and caveats. It simply defines a founder’s end goal, not their day-to-day. ...