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Jonathan Lowenhar

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  1. “Is a traditional sales process. You build a list of the companies that might want to acquire you, you ping them and you hope you get a deal. Magic box argues that the best outcomes for early stage startups don't happen that way. You're never for sale. In fact, you have seduced a buyer. They see the fantasy. They fall in love.”

    2024-12-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Phase one is build something people want to buy. Phase two, the one we don't talk about, is now you have to build a company around that thing people want to buy. Building a company is always the same. I don't care if it's med tech or fintech or hardware or consumer.”

    2024-12-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Founder mode gets me angry. That article just got me hot. It really felt like an excuse. We were giving founders a permission to not learn the job. It's not manager mode is bad. It's the greatest CEOs know when to calibrate which one is needed”

    2024-12-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “To be a founder is a state of being, it's an attitude. To be a CEO is a craft. The more founders who can accept that those are two separate things and they're both equally important to build an ascendant startup, the better all of us will be.”

    2024-12-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source