A Founder's Greatest Danger Is Believing Their Own Myth

• The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of their own myth and importance that they lose touch with reality.
• An equally insidious danger for a business is to lose all sense of myth and mission, mistaking disenchantment for wisdom and becoming just another bureaucracy.
• A great founder's true value is not in their individual genius alone, but in their ability to bring out the best work from everyone else in the company.
• Believing you are a self-sufficient, heroic "prime mover" is a mark of someone who has mistaken the crowd's temporary worship for the truth, not a mark of a strong individual.