The document proposes creating a "Founders' Guild" society to support entrepreneurs. It would work by having successful founders pool their personal wealth to invest directly in new founders over the long term, providing funding and resources at each stage of their ventures and careers. This founders-supporting-founders model could generate outsized returns compared to venture capital by backing serial entrepreneurs through multiple ventures and helping them succeed in building sustainable businesses and careers. The goal is to create a better system that treats founders more fairly and supports them throughout life.

1. an epiphany

2. Did you know?

3. If you added up the personal wealth of
successful founders

4. It would dwarf
all venture capital funds combined

5. So I ask you

6. What if
founders teamed up?

7. and created
our own society?

8. like a
founders’ guild

9. where
instead of
complaining

10. about all of things we
HATE
about RAISING MONEY

11. we just solve them ourselves

12. it would start with
one founder
with enough money to start

13. like me

14. then I’d ask a
few founders
I know to join

15. then I’d ask them to nominate
a few founders of their own

16. and so on...

17. until...

18. it
begins

19. But
HOW
would it work?

20. We’d identify people
we believe to be
serial entrepreneurs
at an early age

21. by using
our own network
to identify people
that we already know

22. and by creating a
national contest
amongst Universities

23. to identify the 18 year olds
we don’t know

24. It’s hard to get in

25. but once you’re in

26. the guild does something
AWESOME

27. it invests in you as a
PERSON

28. for life

29. by committing to
fund every startup
you create

30. and supporting you
until you succeed

31. it treats founders
FAIRLY

32. by agreeing to let founders
sell when they want to sell

33. by allowingall
companies to have
series FF
class preferred

34. by letting founders
choose their
board structure and
board members

35. by having
transparent and
shared term
sheets amongst
members

36. and then it helps them
succeed

37. by having
engineers on staff
to help in the earliest days

38. by providing a
database of engineers
to hire

39. by providing a
relationship
path to large corporations via
guild members

40. by having a
private email list
for answers to quick
questions

41. by having
private research
available for deeper
questions

42. by teaching the
value of
failing fast

43. but staying with the
PERSON until they
succeed

44. so founders have something
they never imagined

45. a CAREER with us

46. and a way to become
wealthy with us

47. and a way to
invest back
in us

48. making our guild
STRONGER

49. making us more
independent

50. imagine

51. if you did this with
Mark Zuckerberg

52. who nailed it on his first shot

53. you’d have a
1,000x return

54. but here’s
the important math

55. if you did this with me

56. who took
3 times
to succeed

57. or Mark Pincus

58. or Max Levchin

59. or any other
serial entrepreneur

60. who took
many times
to figure it out

61. you’d still have a
RETURN that is
10x of any VC

62. ask yourself

63. what if I funded
you?

64. for life

65. when you were 20

66. do you think
you would succeed?

67. I do

68. do you think
my investment would
PAY OFF?

69. I do

70. do you think we’d create a better
world for FOUNDERS?

71. I do

72. what if this is actually
HAPPENING?

73. It is

74. FG
by invitation only