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A curated table

The Founder’s Table

Starting from nothing is a specific skill. Franklin built businesses, institutions, and a nation's infrastructure from a print shop; Hill catalogued how the self-made did it; Lovelace and da Vinci saw possibilities decades before the world was ready. Bring the thing you're building — the pitch, the doubt, the next step — and keep your nerve in the company of people who shipped.

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Who’s seated

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

1706–1790 · United States

Printer, inventor, diplomat, and founding father — a self-made polymath who systematized self-improvement with his thirteen virtues and founded a mutual-improvement club, the Junto, that prefigured the mastermind group.

Portrait of Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill

1883–1970 · United States

Author of Think and Grow Rich and The Law of Success, who spent two decades interviewing industrialists like Andrew Carnegie to distill the principles of achievement — including the mastermind group concept this platform is built on.

Portrait of Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

1815–1852 · Britain

Mathematician, writer, and the first computer programmer — a century before computers existed. Her notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine contained the first published algorithm, and her vision of "poetical science" foresaw machines that could compose music and manipulate symbols, not merely calculate.

Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 · Renaissance Italy

Renaissance polymath — painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, anatomist, engineer, and obsessive observer whose notebooks brim with inventions centuries ahead of their time.

The table, compared

Building something that lasts, versus building something that's true

Real disagreement. They part company on the questions that matter. Convene them when you want the argument.

  • How much the plan should be trusted before it's tested75 apart
    Believe first, then actDoubt first, then verify
    Napoleon Hill
    Benjamin Franklin
    Ada Lovelace
    Leonardo da Vinci
  • Whether the individual or the group is the true unit of achievement75 apart
    The solitary mindThe convened group
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Ada Lovelace
    Benjamin Franklin
    Napoleon Hill
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4 minds. One table.

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