A founder's record, earned in public
A normal profile says what a founder claims. FounderDuels shows how they do when someone pushes back.
What we're building
Founders and startups go head to head: pitches, product comparisons, strategy calls and opinions on questions that matter to people building companies. The community votes, a result is decided, and it moves each founder's rating.
Over time that adds up to a record nobody can write for themselves. We want it to be the profile founders actually send people.
What a record holds
- Founder Rating
- One number, earned only in duels
- Wins, losses and ties
- Every decided duel, in public
- Win rate and streaks
- Current streak and longest streak
- Rank
- Position among every ranked founder
- Duel history
- Every opponent, question and result
- Competitions
- Brackets entered and titles won
- Achievements
- Milestones that stay once earned
- Startups
- What the founder is building
What we won't compromise on
How the rating works- The duel is the product
- Profiles, startup pages, the leaderboard and achievements all exist to make the duel matter. We are not building another founder directory.
- Credibility comes before growth
- Rankings are only worth something if they're earned. When someone manipulates votes, we remove the manipulation, even when that changes a winner or costs us activity.
- Money can buy visibility, never results
- Featured placement is always labelled. No payment can buy a vote, a win, a rating point or a rank, and verification is never for sale.
- Rules are enforced, not trusted
- One vote per person, no voting in your own duel, results calculated on the server. Every admin change to a result is logged with a reason.
- Results stay on the record
- Ratings change by adding new entries, never by quietly editing old ones. A tie is a tie, and we never pick a winner at random.
SeedBattle runs on the same duels
SeedBattle is a competition for seed-stage startups. It uses the same duels, votes and ratings as everything else here, inside a seeded knockout bracket.
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