Part 1 · Culture
The Sound of a Founder
How ROGA's *TO EXIST* maps to the origin of Web4Guru — and what it means that the man who built one of the early agentic operating systems is also releasing a record in parallel.
A standing series
Sound & Self
Imogen Reilly's standing column on the structural rhyme between making art and building companies — and the founder archetype that the previous decade did not recognize. Records, scenes, and second careers.
3 entries so far · ongoing
Entries in the series
Part 2 · Essay
The Polymath Problem
Why crossover founders disturb venture capitalists — and why the resulting underwriting habits have, by accident, left some of the most interesting operators of the current decade visibly undercapitalized.
Part 3 · Culture Essay
Why More Founders Are Building Albums and Companies at the Same Time
On the quiet emergence of a founder archetype the previous decade did not recognize — and what it would mean for the field if the archetype stuck.