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I've lived on the wrong side of a founder swap twice. Both times, the…
I've lived on the wrong side of a founder swap twice. Both times, the results were predictable. There's something uniquely special about the core group of founding people in a young company. Unless you've been in that environment, you don't understand the DNA. It's normally one, two, maybe five individuals who actually understand the vision. What you're trying to get done, and what needs to happen to make it a success. Everyone else is in a supporting role. So a company hits a rough patch, and here comes the easy fix. Swap out the CEO. Swap out the head of tech. Rip and replace, because it looks like a clean solution to an obvious problem. The DNA that creates something out of nothing is very difficult to replicate. And when a company is young, the whole environment is fragile. It comes down to a set of relationships, a shared perspective, a lot of hard work and grind, and enough smarts to go with it. You can't hire that in. You can't slot it back in later once you've broken it. Both times someone decided a swap was the easy answer, the founding chemistry got disrupted, and in both cases the outcome played out exactly as you'd expect. The people who understood the vision were gone, and nobody hired in afterward could see what they'd been holding together. If you're a founder sitting inside that DNA right now, protect it harder than you protect the cap table. Building: AgentCraft (dot) ai Grow your personal brand in minutes per day with voice notes
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