There better be a "founder mode" because "manager mode" is just a proxy for a firm that is run by lawyers, accountants, consultants and bankers. Sharp operators all of them, but none of them cares one iota what the organization actually does.
Management of an enterprize (in general) aims to identify and exercise available options for "creating value" - in whatever terms that is measured. This "options space" is vast and founders versus managers are intimate with very different subsets.
Management of an enterprize (in general) aims to identify and exercise available options for "creating value" - in whatever terms that is measured. This "options space" is vast and founders versus managers are intimate with very different subsets.