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Your first year as a founder isn’t defined by your idea — it’s shaped by the structural decisions you make early. Learn the four critical choices that determine control, runway, momentum, and long-term survivability.

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Three years ago, the fintech company I founded reached a valuation of $120 million. We had raised multiple rounds of capital, grown to hundreds of thousands of users and built something families genuinely needed.