Across sectors—business, nonprofits, academia, and grassroots movements—the same tragedy unfolds. Founders ignite with vision, courage, and the willingness to risk everything. Funders arrive with resources, but their money comes tied to demands, conditions, and control.
Slowly, the founder’s dream is reshaped to fit the funder’s spreadsheet. Startups are forced into exits before they mature. Nonprofits are bent into the shape of donor priorities. Academic inquiry is narrowed to what grant committees find fashionable. Movements lose their radical edge once professionalized by external funds.
In the end, support turns to suffocation. What began as a founder’s mission becomes a funder’s project. Institutions remain, but the spirit that birthed them is buried.
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