One overlooked aspect of 1 and 2: many founders are using their employees as a surrogate for healthy meaningful relationships.

And maybe the executives are actually just hanging out, from their perspective. galavanting around the city and schmoozing. having fun solving a problem they’re passionate about and having no negative consequence of having too much fun. hey as long as you’re only inappropriate with employees of another company in the co-working space the liability surface is limited!

so its not just about managerial control

but both of these kinds of people share the similarity of not being able to relate to the lower level employees