MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Do Founder CEOs Tune Out Their Teams?

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  • Bradley Hendricks, Christopher Bingham, Travis Howell
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2020

Founders need advice more than other managers do, but they are also more likely to ignore it.

Facebook’s user base grew at an exponential rate after Mark Zuckerberg founded the site in his Harvard dormitory in 2004. Remarkably, today Facebook boasts over 2 billion registered users — that’s more than the number of citizens of any single nation, speakers of any specific language, or members of any one religion. Though Zuckerberg guided the company through product development early on, its rapid growth brought new challenges associated with making the business profitable, expanding overseas, and developing an advertising network. To accomplish these tasks, and to comfort outsiders who worried about the young founder’s ability to take Facebook to the next level, Zuckerberg in 2008 hired chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg and other key executives to assist him as CEO.

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