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You believe your entrepreneurial spirit makes you unstoppable? Think again. This book dismantles your illusion of genius, exposes the most perilous bias in the startup world, and guides you towards a mode of thinking that does not seek validation but dares to pursue true transformation. Radical. Uncomfortable. Unavoidable.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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Founder Bias
How Your Genius Turns into Your Greatest Risk
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Titel
1 IGNITE: You think you're the driving force behind your idea - but you're often its biggest brake pad.
2 UNLEARN
2.1 Reflect: You are not your pitch - Why your self-image is toxic
2.2 Analyze: Unfound yourself - How to take your ego out of the equation
2.3 Advance: Break your monopoly on thinking - How to make real criticism possible
3 DISRUPT
3.1 Reflect: Your team senses your stubbornness - but nobody tells you
3.2 Analyze: Unmasking founder logics - Why you think false patterns are the truth
3.3 Advance: Getting out of the genius trap - How to overcome your bias
4 REINVENT
4.1 Reflect: Leadership without omniscience - Why you don't have to be the smartest person in the room
4.2 Analyze: Cognitive sparring - How to recalibrate yourself with thinking partners
4.3 Advance: Thinking humility as a superpower - How you can grow through doubt
5.1 Unlearn: How to decouple your self-image and reclaim your freedom of thought
5.2 Disrupt: How to dismantle the founder myth without losing your mission
5.3 Reinvent: How to reinvent your entrepreneurship instead of losing yourself in it
6 EMBODY: You are the experiment
5 EMPOWER
Impressum neobooks
1 IGNITE: You think you're the driving force behind your idea - but you're often its biggest brake pad.
Imagine building a super-fast car.Design: iconic. Technology: visionary. The engine? Revolutionary.You get in, step on the gas - and wonder why you can't get off the line.
What you don't realize is that you have one foot on the brake.Not because you're stupid. It's because you think you're the driver and the road and the destination at the same time.
Welcome to the worst case of founder bias.The thinking error that makes you fail not because of a lack of intelligence - but because of your own brilliance.
Because that's what makes you blind.Blind to feedback. Blind to contradiction. Blind to better ways.
Your head has turned into a fortress - built out of ideas that you think are untouchable,and defended with arguments that only sound good to yourself.
You call it "perseverance".It's cognitive stubbornness.
You say: "I believe in my vision."What you mean: "I can't imagine being wrong."
This hubris is not a heroic story. It's a crash in slow motion.And you'll be the last to see it coming - because you're just about to put the pedal to the metal,while your bias brake is glowing.
This book is not a comforter. It is a mirror. A glaring, merciless, honest mirror.
He shows you how you sabotage your own startup with your ingenuity.How you are in love with decisions that have long been lazy.How you gather people around you who don't disagree with you -because you have taught them that criticism is unwelcome.
You will feel uncomfortable. You will have to swallow.That's a good thing.
Because this book doesn't want to confirm you.It wants to expose you.So that you can save yourself - before your startup has to.
The RethinkMatrix - your thinking framework for the mental reorganization of your founder identity
This book follows the 9-field RethinkMatrix.It is not a method. It is an imposition. An intellectual challenge for your inner autopilot.
The matrix forces you to think differently - systematically, brutally honest, radically future-oriented.It combines two axes of thought:
Axis 1 - liberation of thought:UNLEARN - DISRUPT - REINVENT
Three radical phases of breaking away, breaking up and reinventing.
Axis 2 - Thinking movement:REFLECT - ANALYZE - ADVANCE
Three mental acts that will help you not to fall into actionism, but to act mentally alert.
The matrix is not a table - it is an explosive map for your founder's head.Each box represents a way of thinking that you either master or are mastered by.What you find in each of these fields is not a theory - but a mirror of your most blind spots.
Matrix overview with chapter titles
REFLECT
ANALYZE
ADVANCE
UNLEARN
You are not your pitch - Why your self-image is toxic
Unfound yourself - How to take your ego out of the equation
Break your monopoly on thinking - How to make real criticism possible
DISRUPT
Your team senses your stubbornness - but nobody tells you
Debunking founder logic - Why you think false patterns are truth
Get out of the genius trap - how to overcome your bias
REINVENT
Leadership without omniscience - Why you don't have to be the smartest person in the room
Cognitive sparring - How to recalibrate yourself with thinking partners
Thinking humility as a superpower - How you can grow through doubt
Why exactly this structure?
Because there can be no more excuses.No more "But that's just the way I am." No more "That's just how I learned it." No "I'm successful after all."
This book doesn't care about your track record.It doesn't ask how much funding you have.It asks whether you can still think at all - beyond your own light.
Because if your ego shines brighter than your idea,then you are not only blinding others.You are blinding yourself.
This book is your way out.Or your alarm.Depending on how much courage you have.
Ready?
Then get out of the driver's seat of your ego car.Stand next to your startup.And see for the first time what you are really building.
It's not the vision that matters.It's whether your thinking survives it.
2 UNLEARN
What you need to get out of the habit
Unlearning is not a weakness - it is the most courageous form of spiritual self-management.Because before something new can emerge, you have to let go of the old. Not because it was wrong, but because it no longer works today. UNLEARN means freeing yourself from the automatic following of habitual thoughts. It is a conscious break with ways of thinking that may have protected you - but are no longer useful.
What you will find here is not an intellectual spring clean.It is a systematic departure from thought patterns that rob you of energy, prevent clarity and block decisions.UNLEARN creates space. For new perspectives. For real thinking. For a mental system that doesn't stand in your way - but supports you.
Are you ready to let go of what you no longer need?Then your first step begins here.
2.1 Reflect: You are not your pitch - Why your self-image is toxic
Imagine you're standing on a stage. Spotlight. Microphone.Your heart is pounding, your lips form words that you have practiced a hundred times.You talk about vision, impact, scaling, purpose.And while the audience claps, something unnoticeable happens -you melt into your narrative.
Not metaphorically. Not psychological.But existentially.
You are no longer the person who founds a startup.You are the startup.Your value depends on how brilliant your idea sounds.How great your future forecast is.How often someone says "Wow" when you speak.
And that's where the cognitive rot begins.
Because the moment you equate your self-image with your pitch,you stop learning.You stop questioning.You stop thinking.
You become the defender of your own myth -and thus the greatest risk to everything you actually want to achieve.
You say: "I am a founder."But what you really mean is: "I can't fail - otherwise I'm nothing."
This flaw in your thinking is not a small crack.It's a crack in your mental foundation through which doubt seeps,but is never let out.
You think you're brave because you're going on stage.
