Paul Graham 在这篇文章中提到了 "Founder Mode"，与之对应的是 "Manager Mode"，提出这个概念的背景是一次 YC 会议上的分享。

创业公司在进入增长期时，通常会有「好心人」站出来，让他们 "Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs."，听起来没啥问题，但通常结果都不太理想。

这里就涉及到了两种 Mode：Founder Mode 和 Manager Mode。有一条评论说得挺好的：Founders have to care in a way that managers do not. Founders have to learn things managers do not. Failure to a founder is dream-ending. Failure to most managers is job-ending. Managers 通常做的事情是：

Treat subtrees of the org chart as black boxes. You tell your direct reports what to do, and it's up to them to figure out how. But you don't get involved in the details of what they do. That would be micromanaging them, which is bad.

下次面试时，也可以问下 CEO 每天的 Routine，以此来了解他到底是 Manager Mode 多一些，还是 Founder Mode 多一些。