Founder perks explained: is a Founders Card worth it?
Elite membership clubs sell access, status, and savings. Whether any of that pays back depends on what your company actually needs this year.
Amara Okonkwo · September 20, 2026
Founders is a profile section about the people who started something and then had to run it. Pieces track the shift from building a product to managing an organization, the point at which a founder hires their first executive, disputes between cofounders, and the exits that follow. Reported, not as told to.
Elite membership clubs sell access, status, and savings. Whether any of that pays back depends on what your company actually needs this year.
Amara Okonkwo · September 20, 2026


The post-money SAFE locks an investor's percentage the day it's signed — here's the arithmetic, the option-pool clause, and the filing deadline founders miss.
Tanya Brooks · August 16, 2026
Research on entrepreneurial mental health finds founders running elevated depression and anxiety rates. The structural fixes are known, unfashionable, and rarely funded.
Tanya Brooks · July 27, 2026