Abstract
A common theme in the entrepreneurship literature is that founders experience greater freedom than those working in established organizations. Much of this literature relies on a contrastive sense of freedom: either “freedom from” structures of control or “freedom to” realise personal potential. We advocate a more expansive account of founder freedom drawing on existentialism. Freedom is the central concern of existentialist writers and this diverse group emphasises not just the opportunities of freedom but its intrinsic and perpetual challenges – what one might call the “dark side” of freedom. This is not a contrastive “freedom from” or “freedom to” but a more fundamental state of “being free”. We develop a broader conceptualization of founder freedom and derive implications.
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