Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

how can managing partners provide trust with founders?

6 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker explains how managing partners can serve as a trusted, empathetic outlet for founders, offering situational awareness that helps founders see challenges from new angles. Using a recent 20‑minute conversation with a high‑growth founder (Series A/B, multi‑million recurring revenue), the speaker illustrates the core advice: when scaling the go‑to‑market organization, founders must balance their direct customer relationships with team involvement, consider product priorities, and most importantly, learn to delegate by "giving away your Legos." This means hiring the right people so the founder can focus on tasks only they can perform, enabling sustainable organizational growth.

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How can we provide that outlet that's rooted in trust, that's rooted in safety, empathy, but has context that can offer situational awareness and say, hey, you're looking at this the wrong way, think about it this way, and so on. I just had that conversation here, like a founder of ours, you know, doing, you know, many millions of dollars in recurring revenue, Series A and beyond, you know, Series B on the way. And we chat, you know, 20 minutes like, hey, can I pick your brain on something? And he's thinking about how do you scale the go-to-market team and how does he balance his own relationship with the customers and get the team involved. But how do I think about then product as well? It's like, hold on, take a step back. You need to give away your Legos. You need to think about how to grow your org and how to hire the right people to then be able to focus on things that you, only you can do.