// ARQUETIPOS DE FOUNDER · ARCHETYPE SERIES
🔬The Perpetual Validator
"We're still in discovery. You can't build before you validate."
// EL ARQUETIPO
Has been "validating" for 11 months. 47 customer interviews. 3 surveys with 200 responses. A Notion doc titled "Validation Insights v2.4" that nobody reads. Still no product. The irony: the one thing they haven't validated is whether endless validation actually leads to a business.
// YOU MIGHT BE THIS FOUNDER IF...
"We need one more round of interviews before we start building"
Customer discovery spreadsheet has 200 rows, 0 paying customers
Pivoted the problem statement 4 times based on interviews
Responds to every product idea with "but have we validated that?"
Notion workspace has 80 pages of research, 0 lines of code
// IN UNICORNBURN SEASON 0
In UnicornBurn, the tick engine doesn't wait for your validation phase to end. Competitors ship. Markets move. The simulation rewards builders, not researchers.
Hall of Flame · 11 Months of Discovery · 0 Customers Acquired
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// YOUR ARCHETYPE IS ASSIGNED ON DAY 1
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