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The “Founder’s Paradox”: Why History’s Greatest Creators Keep Dying Broke

Silicon Valley is celebrating another unicorn IPO today, but historians see a dark echo of 1492. Christopher Columbus died believing he’d found Asia—his true discovery only recognized centuries later.

Now, data analysts have uncovered the “Founder’s Paradox”: 73% of history’s most transformative founders—from Steve Jobs to Marie Curie to Muhammad—were initially dismissed, bankrupt, or exiled by the very establishments they later revolutionized.

The hidden pattern? Founder mortality rates spike exactly 18 months before mainstream acceptance. Call it the ‘being too early’ tax.

Could today’s genius be dying unrecognized while we scroll past? The algorithm doesn’t know history—but maybe that’s the problem.