Madrona Ventures · 16 October 2026 · Operating Insight

Three Traits Shared by Successful Founders & Execs

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Successful founders and executives share three traits—genuine curiosity, triangulated decision-making, and bias toward action—that remain valuable at enterprise scale; Microsoft EVP Charles Lamanna demonstrates how startup habits like customer obsession, high agency, and speed drive organizational transformation, especially as AI reshapes software development and business models.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · Enterprise Software

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