Founder-Future Fit

"Pattern Breaking startup founders are visitors from the future."

• Mike Maples, Jr & Peter Ziebelman

What are the traits of a great founder?

It’s tempting to respond in broad strokes:

• Vision and insight
• Tenacity and endurance
• Ambition
• Adaptability
• Curiosity.
• A maniacal focus on users

These attributes ring true, but it’s important to remember that different opportunities call for different types of founders and teams.?

Founder-Future Fit means a founder or startup team aligns more authentically with a radically different future than anyone else.

This alignment brings great advantages.

Authentic and practical passion for future technologies enables founders to discover insights ahead of the curve and grasp vital details overlooked by others.

This greatly contributes to uncovering ideas with groundbreaking potential. This authenticity also draws in early customers, investors, and believers.

Which gives the startup the edge over its competitors in achieving product-market fit first.

So then, why is Founder-Future Fit so important and what should you look for to see if you have it?

The Advantages of Authenticity

Founders don’t create the future by themselves.

They co-create it with early believers who agree with their vision.

Early believers make choices about who they want to trust.?

These are the traits they seek:

• Who knows this future the best?
• Who is the most intrinsically motivated about this future?
• Who knows the best people to make this future happen?

(This whole section is lifted from Mike Maples, Jr and Peter Ziebelman 's new book "Pattern Breakers". )

The book launched yesterday and out of the gate it's #1.

In the book, Mike & Peter present a new lens on startups.

Fresh (deeply researched) mental scaffolding that provides a different framework for understanding the "magic" of legendary startups.

And if you're read any of our work, like Play Bigger, 22 Laws of Category Design and everything we do at Category Pirates, you'll discover that Patter Breakers is a legendary complement / multiplier on the foundations of category design.

Mike was just on the Follow Your Different Podcast.

It's one of our 20 most popular episodes already.

The CMO of a hot AI startup told me:

"I may just have your Mike Maples pod playing on repeat for the next month. Incredibly valuable."

If you're a person who wants to create different futures.

Take a listen here.

And pick up your copy of Pattern Breakers.

You're welcome.

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