Founders of successful, large companies often think that employees who join later are lazier.
- Founders of successful, large companies often think that employees who join later are lazier.
- Yes, those employees are much less motivated to give every ounce of capacity to the company.
- But that's not necessarily because they're lazy, it's because they have orders of magnitude less exposure to the upside.[zy]
- The founder has many, many, many orders of magnitude more exposure to the upside, of course they "work harder".
- Often that manifests as shaming the new employees and acting like they're lazy.
- They turn what is a cost benefit discussion into a faux moral issue.
- "If you don't care about my mission and want to devote your entire life to it then you're a bad person."
- Sharks don't feel compunction about twisting the other person's arm to make them feel shame to do something against their interest.