16. Why founders don’t delegate as much as they should

Most growing startups quickly reach a point where they are choked by the founder’s limited time. As humans, we simply don’t scale well. There is only so much that efficient work and forgone sleep can squeeze out of a day. The problem is that the entrepreneurs need to delegate more of their responsibilities. This is not an intuitive process for most of us. The typical career path is all about accumulation responsibility and power. Rising through the ranks and building ever larger fiefdoms. As a founder, you go through the opposite process. Founders start off doing literally everything. They are CEO, accountant, customer support, and janitor. Between there and running a large successful company, they need to delegate almost all of that.

Video: https://youtu.be/S_KTNIM5UMs

Blog: https://www.feeltheboot.com/blog/delegation