Great question. Still feels quite open ended as to what it actually means, or entails, beyond being differentiated from manager mode.

One pickle is attempting to parse founder mode moves vs random or stupid ones e.g. lack of empirics on the value add from the Steve jobs retreat, or how could we tell if Elons sleeping at the office was net positive?

Many seem context dependent and thereby inapplicable horizontallly across sectors/companies eg. Richard Brandon’s hot tub meetings at a bank ?

Ripe topic to unpack!