Founders

Builder v founder - what’s the difference?

Operator turned investor. Work in TradFi.  @crossroads 🟪

Dev ecosystem @farcaster, cofounder @bountycaster. Prev: cofounder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, coproducer @ethereumfilm

One of my startup ideas does evolve from my fieldwork, but in an "oh shit I could monetize this and make money whilst helping parents & teachers" way not in a studying other techies & creatives to understand others I'm not even competing with because they have very different products way 😂

Interesting viewpoint ... I see it the other way around as some Founders are just money/marketing types with enough vision to bet on the right thing + hire capable people under them (Jobs etc.), others are artsy creative types who sort of bricoleur their way into founding something (Artistics or Creatives ?), others purposely build a thing to either solve a problem or because they want that thing to exist for themselves (Builders). There's also people who fit under more than one category or are combos, rarer all three. I'm sure there are other categories & subtypes but this seems more like a question for Dr. Mary L Gray. We're friendly aquantances, but that's not my area of anthropology although I'm also a Coder & Creative those lives of mine are quite separate from my Anthropology & charitable life. If there's a term for the first type beyond just calling them Founders I don't know it but there has to be somewhere in the social sciences.