You have 182 days of runway.
A prototype nobody has tested.
A resignation email ready to send.
 
YOU ARE a Startup Founder is an interactive simulation book that places you at the moment every founder faces and nobody warns you about — not the launch, not the pitch, not the exit. The moment before any of that, when the decision is still reversible and the cost of the wrong move is everything you have.
 
You will choose whether to raise capital, find a co-founder, or go it alone. Each path leads somewhere real. Bring in a technical partner and watch the equity conversation arrive before you are ready for it.

Go to the VC meeting and discover that the question you cannot answer is the one that was always going to end it. Launch before the product is ready and find out what public failure actually teaches you. Every decision opens a new path. Every path closes others.
 
There are 31 distinct endings. None of them are random. They are built from the choices you made — about speed, control, honesty, and who you were willing to disappoint.
 
Each ending reveals what changed, what it cost, what you learned, and what remains. The structure is designed to be read more than once. Different choices expose different pressures. The same situation looks entirely different from the other side of a decision you did not take the first time.
 
This is not a book about what successful founders did. It is a simulation of what you would do — and what that would cost.