Your Founder Profile
Your Vision Style
You're a long-game founder, not a quick-flip one. Your strength is building something substantial that compounds over years. You're less suited for venture-scale "grow fast, exit fast" plays and more suited for businesses that reward patience, quality, and depth.
Best Company Type
Service Business or Niche Product
Quality-dependent, relationship-driven, compounds with time.
Danger Zone
Hypergrowth Startups
Speed over quality culture will burn you out.
Your Team Experience
You're good at holding complexity and seeing talent. But you may avoid difficult conversations with underperformers too long, and you might over-rely on doing work yourself rather than delegating imperfectly.
Co-founder Needs
You need someone who executes fast, tolerates imperfection, and doesn't mind external-facing work. Your ideal co-founder is action-oriented where you're reflection-oriented.
Scenario: Cash Crunch
Six months of cash left, no clear path to revenue...
You go internal and strategic. You won't panic-pivot, which is good. But you might delay painful decisions (layoffs, pivots) longer than you should because confrontation feels wrong.
Practical Move
Set a tripwire in advance: "At 4 months runway, we make hard decisions." Pre-commit to the timeline when you're calm.
Deception Pattern to Watch
Your trust patterns create specific vulnerabilities...
Investors, partners, or early employees who mirror your values and communication style can slip past your radar. They'll seem aligned because they're agreeable — then their execution won't match their words.
Red Flag Pattern
Anyone who avoids specific commitments while being generally enthusiastic. "This is great, we should definitely do something together" without concrete next steps is a yellow flag.
Practical Move
Test with small asks before big commitments. How someone handles a low-stakes request predicts how they'll handle a high-stakes one.