There is a kind of founder that every operator has worked with at least once. 

Responsive. Decisive. Always available. The kind of leader who answers Slack messages at 11pm, who jumps into decisions the moment they stall, who takes pride in never being the bottleneck. 

Someone leaves a meeting with what feels like a decision. 

No one wrote it down. No one was formally assigned. But the conversation happened, the room nodded, and everyone walked out assuming someone else was handling it. 

Have you ever come back from vacation to 100 emails and zero progress? 

Or better yet... your vacation was never really a vacation. You were working abroad, apologizing to your family for "just this one last call, I promise."