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From Microsoft's Bill Gates<\/a> to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, most of the people who created the Silicon Valley giants that dominate our lives have since handed the reins to someone else.
\"There's a lot of talk about the importance of a company being 'founder-led'. Ultimately I believe that's severely limiting,\" Dorsey said in his resignation letter, posted Monday on the social network he helped set up in 2006.
Previous tech founders have stepped down for a variety of reasons, from their health to a desire to pursue other interests.
Steve Jobs was suffering from pancreatic cancer when he resigned as Apple chief in 2011, dying just six weeks later.
Gates meanwhile quit as Microsoft CEO in 2000 to concentrate on his philanthropic work, while Bezos has focused on his Blue Origin space company since July.
\"It's not uncommon for a founder to lose interest,\" said US tech analyst Rob Enderle.
\"As a company grows, it changes a lot,\" he told AFP. \"You go from hands on doing work to largely doing administrative tasks and politics.\"
As for Dorsey, his priorities appear to have shifted to his obsession with cryptocurrencies. His Twitter<\/a> bio reads simply: \"#bitcoin\".
\"He's not really that passionate about Twitter anymore,\" Enderle said.
He pointed to the tumult of the Donald Trump era, when the then US president used Twitter as a megaphone before he was controversially booted off, as a source of angst to Dorsey.
\"I think the drama and politics weighed on him and clearly, much of his recent effort has been focused on the Bitcoin exchange,\" Enderle said.
Lasting influence
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Resigning as CEO does not always mean a tech giant's founder distances themselves from the company altogether.
Google<\/a> founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin still have a controlling stake in the search giant and remain on the board of its parent company Alphabet.
Bezos remains executive chair of Amazon and has signalled he wants to \"stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives\".
He also retains some 10 percent of Amazon's shares, worth around $180 billion -- the bulk of his fortune.
The computer engineers who built some of the world's biggest websites -- in Bezos' case, in his garage -- have frequently cited the need to pass the baton to seasoned business executives better equipped to run multi-billion-dollar companies.
Sundar Pichai at Alphabet, Satya Nadella<\/a> of Microsoft, Amazon's Andy Jassy and Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal<\/a> all have intimate insider knowledge after spending years climbing the company ranks.
But replacing the founders with managers is not without its risks, however competent they may be, Enderle argues.
\"Often a founder wants to preserve the company,\" he said, giving IBM as an example of a major tech brand declining \"as different managers came in\".
\"The subsequent executives increasingly focus on short-term monetary gains over long term strategic survival,\" Enderle said.
\"That's why there are very few companies that have lasted 100 years, because that cycle kicks in after the founder leaves.\"
Zuckerberg next?
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Facebook<\/a>'s Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> stands out as the last major Silicon Valley founder still serving as CEO -- but even his position has been questioned of late.
Facebook's parent company was recently renamed Meta in a rebrand that follows a difficult period for the social media giant.
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower whose leaked documents showed that Facebook knew its sites were harmful in various ways, has argued the company cannot fix his problems while Zuckerberg remains in charge.
\"I think Facebook would be stronger with someone who's willing to focus on safety,\" she told the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon earlier this month.
Company insiders suggest power within Facebook remains unusually concentrated in the hands of Zuckerberg, whose reign as chairman-CEO has been uninterrupted since he and fellow Harvard students founded it in 2004.
\"Zuck never really learned how to be a CEO,\" Enderle suggested.
\"The mistakes he's made were critical mistakes that put Facebook at high risk, and are mistakes that I don't believe an experienced CEO would affect.\"
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从微软的比尔盖茨亚马逊的杰夫·贝佐斯,大多数的人创造了硅谷巨头主宰了我们的生活,已经把缰绳交给别人。
“有很多谈论公司被“领导”的重要性。最终我相信的严重限制,”多尔西说在他的辞职信中,周一发布的《社交网络》他帮助成立于2006年。
先前的科技创始人辞职因为各种各样的原因,从他们的健康愿望追求其他的兴趣。
史蒂夫·乔布斯患有胰腺癌,当他在2011年辞去苹果首席,六周后死亡。
盖茨同时辞去微软首席执行官在2000年专注于他的慈善工作,虽然贝佐斯一直专注于他的蓝色起源自7月以来航天公司。
“这不是常见的创始人失去兴趣,“我们科技分析师罗伯•恩德勒说。
“作为一个公司的成长,它改变了很多,”他告诉法新社。“你从手工作主要做行政和政治任务。”
至于多尔西,他的首要任务似乎已经转移到了他沉迷于cryptocurrencies。他的推特生物读取简单:“#比特币”。
“他不是真的热爱Twitter了,”恩德勒说。
他指着唐纳德·特朗普的动荡时代,当时的美国总统使用Twitter作为一个扩音器争议之前启动,多尔西的焦虑的来源。
“我认为戏剧和政治打压他,显然,他最近的大部分精力都集中在比特币交易,”恩德勒说。
持久的影响
辞去首席执行官并不总是意味着科技巨头的创始人距离自己的公司。
谷歌创始人拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林还有这家搜索巨头的控股权并保持母公司董事会的字母表。
贝佐斯仍是亚马逊和执行主席已经表示他希望“保持从事重要的亚马逊计划”。
他还保留了一些亚马逊的10%的股份,价值约1800亿美元,他的大部分财富。
电脑工程师建造了一些世界上最大的网站——贝佐斯的情况下,在他的车库经常引用了需要将接力棒传递给经验丰富的业务主管能更好地运行数十亿美元的公司。
Sundar Pichai字母,萨提亚Nadella微软,亚马逊的安迪雅西和Twitter的新CEOParag Agrawal都有亲密的内部知识后支出年攀登公司行列。
但取代创始人经理并非没有风险,但是主管,恩德勒说。
“经常公司创始人想要保留,“他说,让IBM作为主要科技品牌下降的一个例子”,不同的经理进来了”。
“随后的高管们越来越关注短期货币收益对长期战略生存,”恩德勒说。
“这就是为什么很少有公司持续了100年,因为周期在创始人离开后踢。”
扎克伯格?
脸谱网的马克•扎克伯格硅谷是最后的主要创始人仍然担任CEO,但即使他的地位受到质疑。
Facebook的母公司最近更名为元的重塑,遵循社交媒体巨头的困难时期。
Frances Haugen,告密者的泄密文件显示,Facebook以各种方式知道网站是有害的,认为公司不能解决他的问题,而扎克伯格仍然负责。
“我认为Facebook将强的人愿意关注安全,”她告诉Web本月早些时候在里斯本峰会技术会议。
公司内部人士认为权力在Facebook仍然异常集中在扎克伯格的手中,他的统治是董事长以来一直不间断的他和哈佛同学于2004年成立。
“Zuck从来没有真正学会了如何成为一名CEO,”Enderle建议。
“他所犯的错误是关键的错误把Facebook高危,和是错误,我不相信一个有经验的CEO会影响”。
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