Your Startup Isn't Failing. Your Immune System Is Rejecting It.
Why fighting copycats means you have already lost, and what your body knows about founder-idea fit that your brain refuses to accept.
Why fighting copycats means you have already lost, and what your body knows about founder-idea fit that your brain refuses to accept.
Training your replacement looks like suicide until you realize it's the forcing function that prevents decay. Rick's layoff story and the paradox of voluntary obsolescence.
Morocco survived the Arab Spring by serving its people rapidly. The 2025 GenZ protests reveal governance on autopilot—no DRI for preventing the country from burning. The monarchy must evolve from hard power to service-first governance or face the swarm.
Your government thinks GenZ protests are chaos. They are actually the most sophisticated distributed coordination in history - and Morocco's gaming generation holds the blueprint for 21st century governance.
Mid-2024, routine surgery at Morocco's gleaming Akdital facility: You'll be walking tomorrow. Two and a half months bedridden later, a startup folded, I understood: the gap between promise and reality is not a bug. It is what happens when private equity optimizes nations for 9.3x exits instead of patient outcomes. This is the extraction trap—and Morocco is just following the playbook.