There are moments when leadership stops being about alignment and becomes about survival. Ben Horowitz’s distinction between peacetime and wartime CEOs persists because it captures that shift with uncomfortable accuracy.
Peacetime leaders build culture, nurture consensus, and optimise processes. Wartime leaders make hard calls, tolerate friction, and prioritise survival over comfort. The two rarely coexist in the same person, and organisations that mistake one moment for the other tend to pay dearly.
BlockDAG’s founder, Gurhan Kiziloz, appears to have concluded that his project was being led through a war as though it were peacetime.
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