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Founder Mode: take the chair

Step into a company’s defining chapter and make five decisions from the founder’s seat. After each choice, see what the real company did and where the paths diverged.

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How Founder Mode works

  1. 1 · ReadGet the business context and the constraint facing the company at that moment.
  2. 2 · DecideChoose the action you would take before seeing the historical decision.
  3. 3 · CompareReveal the real choice and finish with a side-by-side path through all five calls.

Business history as a decision game

Founder Mode removes the comfort of hindsight. It gives you the information and tradeoff first, asks for a decision, and only then shows what happened in the real company story.

The comparison is educational rather than predictive. A five-decision run cannot establish business or investing skill, but it can make the logic behind a company’s history easier to examine.

Common questions

Are the companies real?

Yes. Each run is built around decisions from a real company story.

How long is a run?

A run contains five company-defining decisions.

Is this investment advice?

No. Founder Mode is a business-history game and does not recommend a security or trade.