Most founders don’t struggle because they lack vision, they struggle because their company still can’t run without them.

Somewhere between speed, survival, and early success, dependency quietly replaces ownership. Teams stop bringing solutions. Founders become the center of gravity. And growth begins to stall, not because the market changed, but because the company never learned to move without its creator.

This conversation explores why that happens, what it costs, and what must change for real scale, trust, and independence to take root.