Planned Release Date: Feb 1, 2026

About This Game

Learn to predict which startups win by investing through 20 years of tech history.

Question founders. Uncover what really matters. Build your portfolio. Watch real outcomes unfold.

HOW IT WORKS

Each year from 2000-2020, you evaluate startups inspired by real companies. Interrogate founders through a terminal-style interface, identify critical constraints (timing, distribution, monopoly, team), and decide where to invest.

Your decisions compound across market cycles, platform shifts, and bubble bursts. Learn from post-mortems when reality diverges from your assumptions.

INVESTMENT LENSES

Apply frameworks inspired by Peter Thiel's Zero to One:

• Timing: Is the market ready?

• Engineering: Is this a 10× improvement?

• Secret: What do they know that others don't?

• Monopoly: Can they dominate?

• Distribution: How will they reach users?

• People: Can this team execute?

• Durability: Will this last?

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• Pattern recognition across hundreds of startup decisions

• Why some companies 100× while others fail

• How market timing and constraints shape outcomes

• Real frameworks used by successful investors

FOR PLAYERS WHO ENJOY

Text-driven strategy, business simulations, and breaking down complex systems into first-principles thinking.

Framework inspired by Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the authors or publisher.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Players interview AI-generated startup founders through free-form text dialogue. All conversations are single-player and confined to fictional investment scenarios within the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains strong language and mature thematic discussions about business, competition, power, and real-world events. No sexual content, nudity, or graphic violence.