Though all founders of family businesses are entrepreneurs, not all entrepreneurs become founders.
Founders are typically intuitive and emotional people.
They obviously have the drive and ambition to build a great business. But they also have a feeling about the place, a love of what they have created that makes them want to perpetuate it through the generations. They do not always succeed. One analyst of business executives, Manfred Kets de Vries, has written that there are two sides to the founder's personality the bright side and the dark side. The bright side supports the doing of great deeds and the creation of great enterprises.