Founders always share investor meeting details with each other and your reputation is everything in our industry. If you are helpful, present, and considerate, then you’re going to get a great reputation. If you are unprofessional, cavalier, or conceited, or use your position of power in any way that isn’t in service of the founder, then you’re toa

The best way to communicate the founder brand? Podcasting! In podcasting, you are creating content and creating a community because the medium is your voice. It’s actually you. A real person, building a real business.

The Vision Narrative In technology companies that are raising money, the CEO will have a narrative that is used to pitch the company to investors.

The big problem with “founders” who build a feature that a market leader will inevitably get to—and I use quotes here for a reason—is that they lack vision. The act of selecting a feature as their life’s work, as opposed to a full-blown product or a mission, disqualifies them from being a true founder.