Business
23 min
Founder Mode Was Never a Binary
The companies that lasted decades never picked a side.
Venture capital treats the founder versus manager question as a choice with a right answer. The companies that actually compounded for decades reveal a different pattern: the answer is a structure, not a side. Microsoft, Apple, and Berkshire Hathaway each built an internal architecture where both modes operated at once, with bounded jurisdictions.
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