Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on What ‘Founder Mode’ Really Means - The Verge

Present. They understand the business. This doesn’t work if you come from management consulting, and now you’re a general manager who doesn’t really know the domain. That wouldn’t work as well.

great leadership is presence, not absence.

Functional just means expertise-based, not general management-based.

It’s that great leadership is presence, not absence.

It’s another one of the economic dynamics where non-professionals sometimes have an economic advantage over professionals. This is just one example.