Even as an early-stage founder, I get advised by smart people including investors, other founders, and past coworkers to hire other people to “help” me with hard problems. There has been some fantasy in the past decade that you become good at something as either a manager or IC or company - then get compensated highly, in perpetuity, to oversee others who do the hard work from that point forward. Today it’s being replaced by the new Brian Chesky ethos of accountability. I hope to see it bring back more aspirational builders back to the world of tech, replacing bloat and complacency. There is no easy button to creating outsized returns, so we should stop pretending.