Title: Founder’s Syndrome? Who Me?
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Content: From these two facts - that the organization is a being         in its own right, and that that being belongs to the community, not us - come a         number of other facts many founders don’t want to face. 1) Along with the         decision to bring a child into the world comes the responsibility to raise it         to live independently. We all know the old adage - that the only         certainties in life are death and taxes. Well the part we don’t like to         admit to ourselves is that there is another certainty associated with the         “death” part - and that is that none of us knows exactly when our         days will be done. Because we know we are not going to live forever, and we         cannot know if our last day will be tomorrow or 50 years from now, it is         irresponsible to run our organizations as if we will, in fact, be around         forever. It is simply not fair to the organization, nor to those who benefit         from the work we do. The only responsible approach, therefore, is to raise this         child to NOT need us. 2) The world         doesn’t owe you anything for having founded your organization. We         gave up our lives to create the organization we founded. We went without sleep,         sweated blood, and in our case, even went into debt.