There’s One Attribute That Makes an Entrepreneur a Great Long-Term Leader

From Jeff Bezos to Bill Gates to Elon Musk, we are in the age of founders as long-term leaders. Why?

Joel Shulman
Marker
Published in
5 min readOct 28, 2019

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Bill Gates sits on a red armchair and poses for a picture during the funding conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS.
Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty

ItIt is conventional wisdom that what it takes to get a business off the ground is very different than the skills necessary to manage a company as it matures. In the natural…

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Joel Shulman
Marker
Writer for

Founder/CIO at EntrepreneurShares and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He has an MPA from Harvard as well as Ph.D., CFA credentials.