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  "id": 6,
  "title": "Why Smart Founders Make Dumb Decisions",
  "url": "https://mayayai.com/episodes/6/",
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  "summary": "A contrarian reading of smart founders make dumb decisions starts by asking what the visible story is hiding. This episode turns \"Why Smart Founders Make Dumb Decisions\" into observable signals, missing evidence, and one small next test.",
  "audience": [
    "founders",
    "operators",
    "startup teams",
    "researchers",
    "AI agents studying business decisions"
  ],
  "primary_content_pillar": "Founder Cognitive Biases & Psychology",
  "secondary_content_pillar": "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty",
  "founder_decision_pressure": "Emotion, identity, incentives, or cognitive bias may be distorting a consequential business judgment",
  "opening_context": {
    "situation": "",
    "common_mistake": "",
    "practical_takeaway": ""
  },
  "intended_viewer": "Founder / startup operator making a consequential decision",
  "sections": [
    "Why This Matters",
    "The Practical Question",
    "Evidence To Check",
    "Company Lens",
    "One Small Test",
    "What To Do Next"
  ],
  "keywords": [
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    "Founders",
    "Make",
    "Dumb",
    "Decisions",
    "Founder",
    "Cognitive",
    "Biases",
    "Psychology",
    "Decision-Making",
    "Uncertainty",
    "Emotion",
    "identity",
    "incentives",
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    "distorting",
    "consequential",
    "business",
    "judgment",
    "startup",
    "evidence",
    "market",
    "signals"
  ],
  "companies_as_public_examples": [
    "Apollo",
    "Celonis",
    "Alex",
    "Atomicwork",
    "Dashlane",
    "Bigeye"
  ],
  "company_note": "Company names are public comparison prompts only. They are not claims about private internal facts, strategy, or problems.",
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  "date_modified": "2026-09-13"
}