Founders, Fraud and Fallacies
<p>Humans love nothing more than to attribute the success or failure of any venture to a single individual. Minimising team effort to focus on the vision of a founder is equally common in the games industry and the wider business world — just ask Warren Spector, “ <a href="https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/999783355087339520" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">creator of Thief and Deus Ex</a>”. Sequoia’s Roelof Boetha, a PayPal alumnus, is keen on the concept of “ <a href="https://fourweekmba.com/founder-problem-fit/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">founder / problem fit</a>” — startup culture abounds with tales of unconventional individuals who upset the status quo.</p>
<p>A critical problem here is that for every Steve Jobs there’s an Elizabeth Holmes, or a Sam Bankman-Fried…or <a href="https://qz.com/984174/silicon-valley-has-idolized-steve-jobs-for-decades-and-its-finally-paying-the-price" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a Steve Jobs</a> come to think of it). People who are driven to outsized success and ostensibly obsessed with grand goals frequently come with a lot of baggage and, often, they don’t care where they dump it.</p>
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