You raised the round and shipped the product, and now every software purchase routes through your inbox, new hires sit idle for days because no one provisioned a laptop, and a board member just asked about operational readiness with no good answer to give.
That's founder dependency, and it's not a leadership problem, it's an infrastructure problem, which means it can be built.
What founder dependency costs
- - One company was paying for $340,000 in software licenses nobody remembered approving
- - A bad senior hire averages $240,000
- - A slow hiring pipeline costs roughly $22,000 per lost candidate
- - Founder-dependent operations can discount a company 30 to 50 percent at the next raise
The full FoundationOS engagement is $30,000.