Founder's Ladder

Climb the library. Run the startup. How high can the money go?

Rules

You start in Tech alone with $10,000. You pay yourself every second.
Unlock Marketing, Sales, Ops, or Customer Success in any order. Support turns on automatically when you leave Tech-only.
Only Sales makes money. Sales without Marketing is cold calling and much weaker.
Marketing builds Interest. Sales spends it to close deals (one sale = one pending widget).
Ops ships pending widgets after a delay. Shipped widgets never leave; they make Customer Success harder.
Weak CS hurts new sales and leads, not the installed base. Tech debt also hurts CS.
Hire into a cell: Grunt 1x, Manager 5x, Visionary 10x. More people = bigger burn and higher HR drain.
Climbing and sliding the ladder both take time. Peak money is your score. At $0 you are out.