Being Quote by Alexis Ohanian

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

— Sam Altman

It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.

— Michael Seibel

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive…

— Lynn Jurich

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

— Ben Horowitz

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that…

— Ratan Tata

'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.

— Reid Hoffman

As a founder, you are a very active component of your company.

— Justin Kan

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

— Sam Altman

Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an…

— Andy Dunn

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they…

— Sanjay Kumar

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

— Jennifer Hyman

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

— Patrick Collison