Hi, exited founder here. I recently learned more about “uniqueness bias”. And I’m so glad I did, because I now realise that (with all due respect to pg) this is what propels people, upon observing some trend/possible causation, to insist that they have “discovered” something powerful and unique, hey in this case let’s call it “founder mode”.
Whereas the reality is that it’s infinitely more likely that the world of business has, in fact, considered and evaluated various similar management techniques over the past few hundred years. I often find that the vast majority of these new “insights” are usually just common sense.
This is the one good comment here tbh. Work it around a few times, one starts to learn one must check and check again if that unique idea isn’t already a company, or worse a whole industry. All PG is saying is there’s some delta between 1x employee/founder doing everything and a fleet of MBAs coming and not doing much. If you’ve led teams, you know this is true. Doesn’t take a groundbreaking essay to map that out.
