How do you deal with your teammate's founder syndrome?

If you join a project and you have to work closely with its founder how do you deal with his founder syndrome?

This article describes founder syndrome pretty well.

From the article:

• Often fail to share information about the inner details of their projects.

• A founder intent on keeping total control of decision making.

Comments

[Bernard Baker]

I'd ask them to document the code base. Or offer to do it for them.