When I watch Masterchef on TV, I (a person who once tried to use Lurpak in a Béarnaise) often think ‘yeah, I could make that’. But, during the six years I’ve been reporting on startups I’ve never thought ‘yeah, I could be a founder’.
Analysis
April 30, 2025
Think you could be a successful founder? There’s now a test
EQT says only 85 in a million people will be naturally high scoring across the “six traits of successful founders”
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