Founders

Should you listen to Tim Cook type people (clearly competent in tech and extremely well respected, but didn’t get their success from a startup) for startup thoughts and advice?

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Tim Cook is an operator, not a founder. If that's the wheelhouse you need advice in, you could find arguably no better operator than him.

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What do you view as the dividing line between those topics

rough sketch, but:

founder: high vision, takes risk, responsible for funding, building core team, etc

operator: ops, evolves/executes strategy, prod dev, mkt, sales, etc

founder can be an operator but isn't a good operator and should get one

tim was an a+ supply chain operator

typo: likely isn't a good operator. some founders are great at it though, but it usually (to me) doesn't seem to be the case. i'd get a great operator before i'd ever hire a product person, for example.

I agree, but I also think I mainly agree with this 2x2

via: https://scalable.co/library/founder-type-matrix/

I can’t imagine being a founding team member and not leaning hard af into operating. Feels like deadweight tbh - appreciate your thoughts!