Spelled with a zero
The room for founders who actually run something.
F0under is a vetted community for founders with a real business — not a plan to start one. Built in the open, in this order: interviews, then live events in Dubai, then the room itself. Not open yet.
F0under is spelled with a zero. If you searched founder.com, you're in the right place.
How it’s being built
01 · Now
Interviews
Long conversations with founders who run something, with the numbers in. Published here, under their name and mine. No “growth hacks”, no anonymised case studies.
02 · Next
Live in Dubai
Small rooms, real names, no pitching from stage. The people from the interviews are the first guest list. Dates go on the list before they go anywhere else.
03 · Then
The room
A paid, vetted community — small dinners, villa offsites, days on the water, desert nights. The bar gets set with the first members, in public, before anyone pays for anything.
The name
Everyone started at zero. Nobody here is still there.
The room is people running businesses that are genuinely working — revenue, staff, customers who complain, payroll that has to clear. Not an idea, not a plan, not a deck.
What they have in common is that they built it themselves, and can still tell you what the middle was like. That part gets flattened the moment a company works: eighteen months of guessing, nearly running out, and two changes of mind become one clean sentence about traction.
The zero stays in the name so it does not get flattened here. Nobody in this room skips to the end.
Who’s building it
Mike Yuen
A Dutch founder who runs a fashion brand and an AI-influencer coaching business, and is moving to Dubai. F0under is the room he wanted to join and couldn’t find: founders who operate, talking about what actually happened.
Straight answers
- Is this founder.com?
- No. founder.com belongs to another company. F0under — with a zero — is this site, and the only site for this community.
- When does it open?
- When the first interviews are out and the first Dubai room has happened. No date is promised that hasn’t been set.
- Who is it for?
- Founders running $1M+ a year in revenue, with a separate table for $10M+. Revenue is the headline number, not the only test — how that gets verified is being set with the first members and will be published here.
- What does joining the list get me?
- The interviews as they’re published, event dates first, and the application before it opens publicly. Nothing else is sent.
Get on the list.
Interviews as they’re published, Dubai dates first, the application before it opens. Nothing else.