Founder Optional vs Founder Dependent
You're not simply essential or replaceable across the whole business - it's different for each job, and the one you love most is usually the one you can't let go.
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The mechanism
The chart is a single line with your business's jobs placed along it. On the left, where "the business stops when you do," sit sales, strategy, and delivery - all still resting on you. On the right, where things "run without you," sit operations and finance, which someone else owns. You're not one score; you're five, and the job you enjoy handling yourself is often the exact one holding growth back.
Part of Persistence. Infrastructure that keeps growth compounding past founder heroics.