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Great guide for a founder, not a great guide for founders employees. Understand the difference and why it was a mistake. Personally, I apply most of what he’s saying to my daily life but I’ve learned very quickly you’ll have employees that hate you if you expect this from them.

This should be an executive handbook, maybe some trickled to employees knowing if they go above and beyond they’ll get further but there’s a very good reasons founders shouldn’t doodle their personal feelings into a handbook and it’s cost him big.

What we are seeing here is the result of a person that stayed as a startup mentality when it was time to grow into a corporate one. He will survive this I’m sure, but it’s going to cost him a billion dollars and we will start to see a much more grown up version. I hope founders are paying attention to how and why this happened.