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The Founder's Mistake of Skipping The Pre-Mortem
Most first-time founders plan for success. Few plan for failure before it happens. In this episode, we look at the pre-mortem technique popularized by Gary Klein and how applying it to a hypothetical business collapse can reveal hidden risks that standard planning misses. We examine a specific case where a founder’s team assumed their software would scale linearly, ignoring server costs that would have bankrupted them in three months. By asking 'what if this failed' instead of 'how will this succeed,' Lucas and Luna explore how structured pessimism saves runway. This is…
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