{"id":3889,"date":"2023-06-12T21:38:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/founders-acting-cult-leaders-is-bad-for-startups"},"modified":"2023-06-12T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:38:57","slug":"founders-acting-cult-leaders-is-bad-for-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/founders-acting-cult-leaders-is-bad-for-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Acting Cult Leaders Is Bad For Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worshiping Visionary Leaders Hurts Innovation People are so\u00a0hungry for a singular genius who \u201cthink different,\u201d\u00a0that once someone is broadly accepted as a visionary, people will give them credit for ideas they didn\u2019t have. A pile of innovator points awarded by nothing but perception gives them the advantage of support for any idea, no matter how stupid. Again if everyone saw the world like them, they wouldn\u2019t be a visionary. But this chokes innovation. How Gawker Media Once Kept Silicon Valley In Check Twitter is no startup; it is a 16-year-old company that IPOed over nine years ago and was taken private again via the seventh-largest acquisition of all time. Elon Musk\u2019s behavior, however, is peak startup-bro. Only months into his tenure as Twitter\u2019s owner, he stopped paying office rent and is\u00a0considering not paying severance packages\u00a0to former employees.\u00a0 Stop Letting Fame Trump Talent In Publishing And Entrepreneurship A charismatic figure can add a few trillion in economic value to a business. Steve Wozniak creating a microcomputer capable of being the Apple I appears predestined. Without Jobs, Wozniak probably would have been\u00a0Linus Torvalds, a titan of computing who built a technology many rely on but few can name. How Forbes Monetizes The Frauds They Create Forbes is the best in the business at monetizing frauds on the way up and later on the way down. Javice was the CEO of\u00a0a startup called Frank\u00a0that JPMorgan Chase acquired in large part because of the over 4 million users the company boasted. The best coverage&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/founders-acting-cult-leaders-is-bad-for-startups\/\">Founders Acting Cult Leaders Is Bad For Startups<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worshiping Visionary Leaders Hurts Innovation People are so\u00a0hungry for a singular genius who \u201cthink different,\u201d\u00a0that once someone is broadly accepted as a visionary, people will give them credit for ideas&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3173,352,300,1334,114,3172,283,452,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}