The average scaling founder loses $1M+ a year to blind spots: wrong hires, slow decisions, and problems that keep coming back.
The Problem
What is a founder's blind spot?
A blind spot is something you cannot see clearly because you are standing inside the system. From in there, things just look like how things are. You are too close to see the pattern.
Every founder has blind spots. Whether they know it or not. The only way to see a blind spot is to flip your perspective — step outside the room you have been standing in, or have someone from the outside show you what you cannot see on your own.
That is what this newsletter does. Every Tuesday, I break down one such blind spot in plain language so you can recognise it and do something about it.
Recognition
Do you recognise any of these in your business?
Are you still making every important decision, even though you hired a leadership team to do that?
Are the same fires showing up quarter after quarter?
Did your best senior hire leave within 14 months, and you are not sure why?
Is your team waiting for your go-ahead on things they should own?
Do you feel like the business would stall if you stepped away for two weeks?
Are you working harder than anyone else and wondering why your team does not match that pace?
If even one of those landed, there is probably a blind spot underneath it. Once you can see it, you can fix it.
Every Tuesday
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What founders are saying
This is the only newsletter I actually open every Tuesday. Five minutes and I always walk away rethinking something.
Founder, B2B Services · Mumbai
Sid named something in Issue 3 that I have been living with for two years without realising it.
Second-Gen CEO, Manufacturing · Dubai
I have read a lot of founder content. Most of it tells you what to do. This one shows you what you are missing. That is a completely different thing.
Founder, Series A SaaS · Singapore
PCC · ICF · 12+ Years
About the author
Coach Sid
I am Siddharth Anantharam — private advisor to scaling founders and second-generation business leaders. I have spent 12+ years working with hundreds of founders across the world, most of them at the same stage: the business was working, revenue was growing, and yet everything still depended on them.
I started The Blind Spot because I kept seeing the same patterns repeat. A handful of blind spots that showed up again and again. This newsletter is where I write about them, once a week, in plain language.
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