Startups As Modern Warlord Path

The piece claims founder culture has replaced war and imperial expansion as the main route for unusually ambitious, risk‑tolerant men to gain rapid status and power in a peaceful, bureaucratized order. It explains the eerie overlap between military strategy books and startup management memoirs as both speak to command, logistics, and morale under stress. — If entrepreneurship channels our society’s 'warrior' energy, debates about tech, hiring, DEI, and regulation are also debates about where a civilization parks male risk‑taking and how it is governed.