Founder mode is mostly bad advice for second-time founders

i did founder mode at my first company. high context, deep in everything, no abstraction layer between me and the work. it worked. we sold. i tried the same playbook at my second company and it nearly killed it. here's why. first time: i didn't know what i didn't know. being in everything was the only way to learn fast. second time: i did know. and by being in everything i was blocking my team from making the calls i'd already made 5 years earlier. they couldn't grow. half of them left. founder mode is a specific tool for a specific stage. usually pre-product-market-fit, usually first company, usually small team. dressed up as a universal philosophy it just becomes "the founder is a bottleneck and proud of it".