I was planning on writing a "week later" Founder Mode post, but I think Molly Graham did it much better than I. Please go read the whole article, but the tl;dr is as follows:
1) The most extraordinary companies in the world are run by intense, brilliant founders.
2) Extraordinary companies are built in the image of extraordinary founders.
3) The job of an exceptional operator is to teach the company to act like the founder at scale.
4) The most extraordinary founders are voracious learners.
5) One of the hardest jobs as a founder is to find people who are going to be exceptional at working for YOU.
6) An essential part of Founder Mode has to be learning how to delegate well.
I'll add that this is why company Values, which I for decades derided as platitudes, are so important. A company's Values represent the fundamental way the CEO makes decisions. Values enable the rest of the team, especially the executive team, to make decisions that are in alignment with the CEO.
A great executive team has diversity in experience, and skill sets, and points of view. And yet, when meaningful decisions are made, there needs to be utter uniformity in the guiding principles that drive those decisions.
In the most successful companies, those principles are just the CEO's thought process made plain.