The Founder Role Across Company Stages

.@nicolasosharp, CEO of @attio, on how the founder role changes: 0-20 people: "You do everything. While you wait for code to run, you log into Xero and do accounting. While walking to coffee, you answer Intercom tickets. It's this crazy cycle." 20-50 people: "You should have a team much better than you at everything. The role shifts to building the team, setting vision, keeping the company solvent. Hire great people, don't run out of money." 50+ people: "At 50 people, I could tell you what anyone was doing that day. That doesn't work past 50. You have to build systems for context and information dissemination. Be very thoughtful about culture." Founder at 10 people vs 50 people vs 100 people: Completely different jobs.