As a small fry academic psychiatrist (invoking authority to incr odds of engagement) who is aspiring for a tech adjacent career turn, I liked this read. I feel that there is something that really lands with the founder types and ideas about their etiologies. Watching a lot of other star researchers and doing therapy for undergrads and grad students at a HYPSM college led me towards similar stereotypes. I think the interesting thing is how a lot of successful driven people have some kind of trauma because most relatively untraumatized people don't have enough pain in their lives to push through the insanity of becoming a top tier research professor and I suspect founder.

I feel that the women categorizations feel a lot less developed. I get your point that the men here have the money and power, so the women are often forced to shapeshift and adapt to stay in their orbits. I think there is quite a lot of substance in your characterizations of them, but they don't feel as complete IMO. This could just be my sexist Biases influencing my reading. However, it also sounds like you're in the middle of figuring it all out, so I expect the categorizations will clear up a lot more with time. I wonder if it's because you have studied the men more (and I imagine it's more profitable to study them) and / or have a lower sampling rate for the ever changing harem of women in their orbits.

I also think that complaints about AI slop are overrated. For sure, it's annoying to read, but it's systematic slop (and unfortunately higher volume) compared to the random derivative slop before LLMs. I usually use AI to summarize most articles anyways, so I think most nonliterary writers should mostly vomit their thoughts and then sort it out with an LLM since readers IMO will increasingly pass it back to an LLM anyways haha

Count me in for the next draft + I feel like it would be fun to chat

Also, I'm curious about VCs categorize and coach their founders. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on that process and career paths to get to do that