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初创企业的科学:创始人个性对公司成功的影响

The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success

Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Fabian Stephany, Fabian Braesemann, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Margaret L. Kern

AI总结:

本研究基于大规模全球初创企业数据,发现创始人个性特质显著影响公司成功,且存在六种个性类型,其中“嬉普士、黑客和 hustler”组合的初创企业成功率翻倍,并支持多样化团队的价值。

摘要:

初创企业解决当今许多最复杂和具有挑战性的科学、技术和社会问题,例如经济脱碳、空气污染以及新型救命疫苗的开发。初创企业是社会、科学和经济创新的重要来源,然而最具创新性的初创企业也是最不可能存活的。已有研究表明,初创企业的成功概率与若干企业层面的因素相关,如行业、地理位置和当时的经济状况。尽管如此,人们的关注点越来越多地转向与公司创始团队相关的内部因素,包括他们之前的经验和失败、他们在由其他创始人和投资者组成的全球网络中的中心地位,以及团队的规模。创始人的个性对新企业成功的影响在很大程度上是未知的。在此,我们表明创始人个性特质是公司最终成功的一个重要特征。我们利用了关于大规模全球初创企业样本成功情况的详细数据。我们发现,初创企业创始人在30个维度上的大五人格特质与普通人群显著不同。区分成功企业家的关键个性方面包括偏好多样性、新奇和开始新事物(对冒险的开放性)、喜欢成为关注的焦点(较低的谦逊水平)以及充满活力(较高的活动水平)。然而,我们没有发现一种“创始人型”个性;相反,出现了六种不同的个性类型,由“嬉普士、黑客和 hustler”组合创立的初创企业成功的可能性是其两倍。我们的结果还证明了初创企业中规模更大、个性多样化的团队的好处,这有可能通过进一步研究扩展到企业、政府和研究领域的其他团队环境中。

英文摘要:

Startup companies solve many of today's most complex and challenging scientific, technical and social problems, such as the decarbonisation of the economy, air pollution, and the development of novel life-saving vaccines. Startups are a vital source of social, scientific and economic innovation, yet the most innovative are also the least likely to survive. The probability of success of startups has been shown to relate to several firm-level factors such as industry, location and the economy of the day. Still, attention has increasingly considered internal factors relating to the firm's founding team, including their previous experiences and failures, their centrality in a global network of other founders and investors as well as the team's size. The effects of founders' personalities on the success of new ventures are mainly unknown. Here we show that founder personality traits are a significant feature of a firm's ultimate success. We draw upon detailed data about the success of a large-scale global sample of startups. We found that the Big 5 personality traits of startup founders across 30 dimensions significantly differed from that of the population at large. Key personality facets that distinguish successful entrepreneurs include a preference for variety, novelty and starting new things (openness to adventure), like being the centre of attention (lower levels of modesty) and being exuberant (higher activity levels). However, we do not find one "Founder-type" personality; instead, six different personality types appear, with startups founded by a "Hipster, Hacker and Hustler" being twice as likely to succeed. Our results also demonstrate the benefits of larger, personality-diverse teams in startups, which has the potential to be extended through further research into other team settings within business, government and research.

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