Howardism · Vol. 03Plate II · No. 02
Founder, tagged.
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Every article tagged founder, newest first.
| Title | Summary | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Founder-Led Sales Discipline | Stay founder-led until PMF; don't offload sales to an AE *or* an agent; explicit tension with Founder As Agent Orchestrator | |
| John Glasgow | CEO/founder of Campfire; 10yr corporate finance; founder-led-sales advocate; long-horizon "last job I'll ever have" | |
| Orchestration vs Employee Framing: Reconciling the Founder's Playbook with HBR's Accountability Evidence | Reconciles the Founder's Playbook orchestration framings with HBR Kropp et al.'s accountability evidence; "orchestration as workflow design" survives the critique; "orchestration as mental model of agents-as-coworkers" does not; operational checklist for the disciplined founder | |
| AI-Native Startup Lifecycle | Anthropic's May 2026 reframing of Idea/MVP/Launch/Scale assuming AI infrastructure: each stage's headcount/capital/skill gates dissolve; lean unicorn as deliberate target | |
| Founder as Agent Orchestrator | Founder role shift: less individual contributor, more orchestrator of specialized AI assistants; non-technical founders unblocked; lean 10-person unicorn structurally enabled | |
| Problem-Solution Fit Discipline | Idea-stage thesis: three defenses against premature building (time, resources, belief friction) all eroded; AI as devil's advocate is the antidote to confirmation-bias-with-research-engine | |
| Zero-Friction Scope Creep | MVP failure mode when agentic coding removes the cost-based forcing function against scope creep; antidote is written scope + evidence-based amendment criteria |