The asymmetry of skill transfer is stark: founders can learn management, but trained managers fundamentally cannot learn to think like founders. This is why a16z's thesis is to recruit founders and teach them the operational craft — not the other way around. The default instinct of institutions is to bring in professional managers, but that move erases the founder's mind at exactly the moment disruption demands it.
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