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The Fourth Turning Founder Playbook
A strategic framework for building durable, anti-fragile AI companies through a turning — grounded in cycle theory and real founder strategy.
Every roughly eighty years, the old order comes apart and a new one is built in its place. This playbook reads the current moment through that long cycle, then translates it into concrete decisions for founders building durable AI companies through the turn.
What's inside
- 01Why a theory of history belongs in your strategy deck
- 02Reading the turning you are in
- 03Crises remake institutions — and that is where founders are made
- 04Building anti-fragile, not merely resilient
- 05What is actually defensible when the model is a commodity
- 06Capital strategy across a turning
- 07Raise-readiness as a discipline, not an event
- 08Talent and culture for a crisis era
- 09Positioning for the next two years
- 10Positioning for the next ten years
- 11Reading the failure modes of a turning
- 12A ninety-day plan to position for the turning
- 13A founder's operating creed for the Fourth Turning
Includes 12 cited references and worked examples, written in plain language you can act on.
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