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Most Founders Don’t Hit a Growth Ceiling. They Become One.
One pattern I see over and over with founders trying to scale:
They start a business as a "I do everything" operator…and never consciously decide when to stop being one.
At the beginning, that mindset works.
You have to make every decision. You have to touch everything. You are the business.
But once the business starts moving, something subtle happens.
The company grows. The workload grows. The pressure grows.
But your role doesn’t.
So instead of scaling, you become the constraint.
From the outside, it looks like success.
From the inside, it feels like constant exhaustion and zero mental space.
What most founders skip isn’t a system or a hire, it’s a role redefinition.
There’s a real shift that has to happen: from “I do the work” to “I decide what work should exist without me.”
That requires stepping out of employee mode and fully into owner mode — creating time to zoom out, think strategically, and design the next phase instead of surviving the current one.
Question for founders a few years in:
What’s something in your business that still runs through you… even though it probably shouldn’t anymore?
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Most Founders Don’t Hit a Growth Ceiling. They Become One.
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