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Patient believes their unremarkable idea will disrupt a trillion-dollar industry. Has a pitch deck. Uses the word 'flywheel' in grocery stores.
Fatal to savings accounts. Symptoms worsen after podcast appearances.
None. Do not, under any circumstances, introduce patient to a venture capitalist.
Patients with Acute Founder Mode typically present with some or all of the following:
Acute Founder Mode was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Startupus delusio totalis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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