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The email interview
Reply speed as a signal
The best founders answer email, text, and Slack almost instantly, because they feel a personal sense of responsibility and urgency. Not every strong founder is like this, but when it shows up, it's a positive sign.
How it shapes a team
One founder answers within minutes on every channel and stays on top of everything. Her team likely operates the same way, and the culture she is building will match, which gives her exponential leverage.
Why time is precious
Time is precious, and a founder who isn't responding, working, shipping, or talking to customers is slowing the business down and slowing others down with it. People who feel an urge to move quickly show it in how much weight they give to communication.
How does a leader's pace spread to a team?
MIT Sloan professor Edgar Schein argued that what leaders pay attention to, measure, and react to most consistently is the strongest way an organization's culture gets set. People watch how a leader spends time and which messages get answered. They then adopt those habits as the norm. Schein laid out this idea in his book Organizational Culture and Leadership.
How does waiting slow a whole team?
Little's law, proved by MIT's John Little in 1961, says the average number of items in a system equals the arrival rate times the average time each item spends there. If decisions sit in an inbox longer, more work piles up in progress at the same arrival rate. Each stalled item holds up whoever depends on it. Software teams use the law to explain why shorter queues speed delivery.