Leadership · 5 min
The loneliest job and what to do about it
Founder loneliness is not a mood. It is a structural consequence of holding decisions nobody else can hold.
Your team cannot carry it. Your investors have their own position. Your family loves you but is not inside the problem.
So the decisions accumulate, unshared, until judgement degrades, and degraded judgement is the single most expensive condition a company can run under.
The remedy is not more advice. It is one person who understands the business well enough to challenge you and is unafraid to do it.