> there seems to be lots of evidenxe that founders telling stories is valuable, and little evidence that it's not. Storytelling is common to successful startup

> there seems to be lots of evidenxe that founders telling stories is valuable, and little evidence that it's not. Storytelling is common to successful startups and to the mass graveyard of failures. The question isn't whether storytelling is necessary given the way things are done currently (it is necessary, therefore it is necessarily effective), but whether the gap between storytelling and the ground truth is necessary.