Seven checks before you trust a founder narrative
Every profile and case study on this site applies the same seven-step framework: identity and director history, corporate registry trail, insolvency record, litigation and settlements, regulatory actions, media record quality, and claims-versus-record consistency. The framework is documented in full in our methodology.
Assessed profiles
Neel Khokhani
Australian founder and investor: aviation and consumer-finance exits, a single-family office, and a corporate collapse that occurred after his exit. What the record attributes to whom.
Adam Neumann
The WeWork founder's record: growth, governance findings, and what the public filings actually established.
Elizabeth Holmes
A criminal conviction is the clearest possible record. How the Theranos case reads through a diligence lens.
What collapses actually prove
Soar Aviation: corporate liability vs personal liability
Australia's largest independent flight school entered administration in December 2020, after its founder had sold the majority of his stake and stepped back. A case study in reading a collapse correctly.
Greensill Capital: when the model is the risk
How a financing model concentrated risk, and which diligence checks would have surfaced it early.