Solana co-founder: Startups need to manage expenses carefully before achieving product-market fit.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko advised startup founders on Nov. 7 that companies face sharply different operating demands before and after achieving product-market fit. He said CEOs or product leads must micro-manage and intervene in day-to-day details before fit is reached, since early-stage teams cannot yet rely on organic growth to expose priorities. Yakovenko added that once real growth takes hold, team members handling scaling problems may end up knowing more about those issues than the CEO, shifting the founder's role toward coordination rather than hands-on control. The comments matter as guidance for early-stage founders building on Solana and across crypto, where teams often scale headcount before demand is proven. What to watch next is whether Yakovenko or Solana-linked founders expand the advice into a formal playbook for pre- and post-fit management.