Library/Lexicon/TERM-096
TERM-096Behavioral

Founder's Syndrome

The pattern where a founder's strengths become the organization's constraints. What worked at the early stage — hands-on control, rapid decisions, personal relationships — becomes a bottleneck at scale. The organization can't outgrow what the founder won't let go of.

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