Founders make terrible employees — here’s why every startup should hire them | Sifted

Dex has hired its first employee, Evelyn Tan, a former founder who previously built a human-performance startup through Entrepreneurs First. The move reflects a growing argument that founder backgrounds can be valuable in early-stage teams because of their tolerance for ambiguity and bias toward action. The article contends that founders often struggle as employees in conventional settings but thrive when given ownership and clear scope. It points to the need for startups to define roles carefully so that founder hires are set up to succeed rather than constrained by rigid processes. What to watch next is whether more early-stage companies deliberately recruit founders into operating roles and how those hires perform as teams scale.