Paul Graham's concrete move in 'Founder Mode' is the Jobs retreat pattern: invite the 100 most important people, not the 100 highest on the org chart. * A healthy founder-mode startup might sit at depth 1-2 of the most-important set; a politics-dominated mature company might be at depth 5-6 of the formal hierarchy.
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