Spot on about the identity crisis at late seed. That shift from founder to founder-CEO is where I've seen the most talented builders completely stall out. The hardest part is recognizing that the skills that made the 0-to-1 work become liabilities at 1-to-10. I learned this the hard way in a previous venture where I kept trying to stay hands-on, and it became the bottleneck intsead of the accelerator.
Spot on about the identity crisis at late seed. That shift from founder to founder-CEO is where I've seen the most talented builders completely stall out. The hardest part is recognizing that the skills that made the 0-to-1 work become liabilities at 1-to-10. I learned this the hard way in a previous venture where I kept trying to stay hands-on, and it became the bottleneck intsead of the accelerator.
So true. It happens time and time again.