Hey friends 👋🏼 Startups are games. This newsletter is about empowering brains (with startup game theory) & hearts (with intros + celebrations). Today, we tackle the former: this multi-part article will focus on running our first startup simulations. 😎

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Founders play 2 or more of games in parallel - hiring, fundraising, distribution, PR, etc.

But there’s one game everyone plays at the same time: the fundamental game of startups.

Our goal? Unveil what playing the startup game in the most optimal way means.

Over the last few weeks, we started laying down & deriving some theoretical results that would build up on a framework that would make startup simulations feasable.

Our first set of simulations addresses the following situation:

“You’re an early-stage startup in a mature market, competing against one big incumbent and another nimble startup.”

This week was supposed to be the week I unveiled our first live simulation of the startup game, where 2 startups & 1 incumbent compete for 1,000 customers in real time.

The code is ALMOST ready - all the logic is now in place and 95% tested, but unfortunately, the debugging/testing process took all the remaining time I had to work on this this week.

So rather than rushing and giving you something bad, I’m taking one more round to make it great 😎

If you want to support the simulation effort, reply to this email & I’ll privasend you some open PRs you can jump into! We can accelerate the building of great things together!

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. So if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” — Brian Kernighan (co-creator of Unix & C)

See you next week!

Remy 👾

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