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The One Idea Every Founder Should Hear

What’s the one idea every founder should hear? At the end of our founder-led growth research project with the University of Reading, David and Rasool from The Digital Lightbulb put that question to the student researchers.

Rasool opens up about what he got wrong about founder-led businesses. David pulls together the big themes: control, delegation, founder’s syndrome, succession, trust and reputation. Then each student shares their lightbulb moment: growth means letting go of who you were, values aren’t optional, founders don’t scale businesses, they scale influence, and full alignment isn’t…

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