Charlotte Rogers: 2018 is the year the founder bubble burst

Ted Baker founder Ray Kelvin.There has long been a kind of mystique around founders, which meant their (at times) strange behaviour was explained away as simply a mark of genius.
Ted Baker’s Ray Kelvin, for example, spent three decades refusing to show his full face in public, preferring to live in the shadow of his fashionable alter ego, while Tesla’s Elon Musk sent out controversial tweets and cooked up audacious plans for space travel.
Once considered quirky or eccentric, the beha