Eric Siu explains why founders must stay deeply involved in their companies. He uses Neil as an example: despite having no direct reports, Neil calls his CFO and executives constantly to maintain pace and vision. Hands-on founders keep momentum alive.
when the founders aren't involved, things just tend to drop a lot because nobody else is incentivized as much as you are as the founder, 'cause you have the lion's share of the equity. And so let's use Neil again. In his company, he has no direct reports 'cause he's terrible with people. And he'll say this himself, but he's heavily involved. Like he's calling his CFO like multiple times a day. He's calling his executives multiple times and he's pushing the pace, right? Focused involvement. That's the main thing I've learned about leadership. Because if you're not there, you're not present, then there's gonna be no vision. There's gonna be no direction.
