Selection
Choose capabilities because they address a consequential founder job or a documented operating gap—not because a repository is popular, new, or persuasive.
The curator
A living registry needs a human steward.
Founder Hub is curated by Joy (Zheng Zhao), PhD Candidate in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. She is building it as a one-person research and product lab: one human setting the questions, directing machine collaborators, and remaining accountable for what enters the registry.
A registry is not a pile of links.
Curation means deciding which founder jobs deserve a bounded capability, whether the evidence supports its design, how capabilities should work together, where human judgment must remain, and what must be repaired before a record advances.
The curator’s role is not to make everything look finished. It is to keep selection, provenance, maturity, and uncertainty legible.
What curation means here
Five responsibilities sit behind every record.
Evidence lineage
Keep claims connected to their sources, transformations, decisions, and limitations. Model memory is never treated as evidence.
Interoperability
Require explicit contracts and coherent shared venture state. A skill that works alone can still fail when another must consume, question, or repair its work.
Adversarial review
Separate producer and grader. Freeze the candidate, exercise ordinary and deliberately difficult cases, and challenge the exact version under consideration.
Repair
Treat every verdict as version-bound. Failures stay visible so another steward can reproduce, diagnose, and repair them.
A one-person research and product lab
Human–machine collaboration with visible responsibility.
Joy studies entrepreneurship and human–machine collaboration. She is building Founder Hub as a one-person research and product lab: one human setting the questions, directing machine collaborators, and remaining accountable for what enters the registry.
Machine collaborators can widen the search, compare mechanisms, draft records, build artifacts, run tests, and challenge conclusions. Joy defines the evidence bar, establishes authority boundaries, ratifies shared contracts, and makes the final editorial and maturity decisions.
The machines can widen the search and sharpen the challenge. The curator remains accountable for what the registry asks people to trust.
Curatorial commitments
The operating doctrine.
A visible gap is more useful than an unsupported readiness claim.
Extract the useful operating pattern without inheriting an entire project’s assumptions.
Capabilities preserve lineage as work moves between them.
A producer cannot confer maturity on its own work.
A reproducible failure is evidence; a cleaner demonstration is not a fix.
Contact Joy
Corrections and evidence are welcome.
For research conversations, corrections, or evidence relevant to a registry record, contact the curator directly.
See the doctrine in motion