
Founders
Mentality

Founder Mentality
Most fast-growing companies aspire to global leadership in their industries. They often start as insurgents: fast, agile and adaptable. But to win in the long term they must scale, often losing what we call the Founder's Mentality.

Profitability
Scale insurgents are 3.5x more likely to show much better profit. Scale Insurgents 71% chance to 21% Rigid Bureaucracy of sustaining profitable growth.

Adaptability
Scale insurgents are 7x more likely that they can adapt and handle industry change over rigid bureaucracy.
Scale Insurgents have a 77% change of surviving change over rigid bureaucracy at 11%.

Meritocracy
Scale Insurgents are 3.5x more likely to retain a culture of meritocracy over rigid bureaucracy.
Scale insurgents 70% more likely to retain a culture of meritocracy over rigid bureaucracy at 19%

Noble Mission
Employees in scale insurgent companies are 6x more likely to support the companies mission opposed to rigid bureaucracy.
Scale insurgents employees are 93% more likely to support the companies mission then rigid bureaucracy at 16%

Talent Appeal & Retention
Scale insurgents are 6x more likely to excel in attaining and retaining talent over rigid bureaucracy.
Scale insurgents are 73% more likely to have success in talent appeal and retention opposed to rigid bureaucracy 13%.

Employee Loyalty Index
Scale insurgents are 11.5 x more likely to achieve employee loyalty opposed to rigid bureaucracy.
100% of Scale Insurgent companies employees would recommend that company to friends or family as opposed to rigid bureaucracy at -19%.