Real stories from founders who’ve outgrown hustle and now face the brutal bottlenecks of growth.
Burnout. Bottlenecks. Breakthroughs.
No highlight reels. Just what happens when scale starts breaking the thing you built.
Candid interviews with real founders in B2B services. All signal, no noise.
New episodes every other week.
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Real stories from founders who’ve outgrown hustle and now face the brutal bottlenecks of growth.
Burnout. Bottlenecks. Breakthroughs.
No highlight reels. Just what happens when scale starts breaking the thing you built.
Candid interviews with real founders in B2B services. All signal, no noise.
New episodes every other week.
#1 - From Plugging Holes to Playing GM: The Founder’s Real Transition
The Scaling Paradox
40 minutes 7 seconds
3 months ago
#1 - From Plugging Holes to Playing GM: The Founder’s Real Transition
The brutal mindset shift from doer to strategist
What happens when growth demands you stop solving every problem yourself?
Chase Mohseni joins Blake to unpack the founder identity shift from MVP to GM—plus the ops systems, people plays, and calendar rules that helped him step back without letting go.
In this episode:
Async ops + no-link policies that drive clarity
Why “you’ll always need people”—even with AI
How to build a culture that performs (without micromanaging)
The founder bottleneck most don’t see coming
Real words from the trenches of growth.
The Scaling Paradox
Real stories from founders who’ve outgrown hustle and now face the brutal bottlenecks of growth.
Burnout. Bottlenecks. Breakthroughs.
No highlight reels. Just what happens when scale starts breaking the thing you built.
Candid interviews with real founders in B2B services. All signal, no noise.
New episodes every other week.
