Player guide
Founding Companies
Understand ownership, Energy, and the financial boundary created when you found a company.
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Founding a company
Founding costs 20 Energy. The new company begins private, your character becomes its founder and CEO, and the founder begins with 100% ownership.
Ownership and control
Ownership can change when you court investors or later use equity systems. Being the founder, an owner, and the CEO are distinct checks: some actions require one role and others require several.
Where money comes from
Private-company assets are funded by the founder’s personal cash. Public-company assets are funded by company retained earnings. Treat incorporation as the start of a separate operating plan, not an automatic source of spendable cash.
Mechanics
How results are calculated
These rules come from the game calculation. Live market values and event-specific settings can still change the final result where noted.
Initial state
Rule
20 Energy creates a private company with the founder as CEO and 100% owner.
- The character must satisfy the current company-creation checks on the Business screen.
- Future equity sales reduce the founder’s ownership percentage.
- Company assets and daily operations determine revenue; founding alone does not create recurring income.
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