When You Should Be a Founder
by Colin Levine
Someone asked me recently why I really wanted to be a founder, and it comes down to 2 things. I love building stuff, and I love leading people. The first is obvious, but I want to expand on the second because it's usually more difficult for technical people to develop this skill.
When I was in high school, I led the robotics team for 3 years. My school was made up of maybe 95 people total, so the team needed to be ~8-10% of the population for us to be really successful. A huge part of my role was recruiting...