Foundership vs Dealer Simulator

Foundership is a startup strategy simulator where you accidentally learn how to build a SaaS company by playing one. Grow monthly recurring revenue, attract users, invest dev hours, unlock upgrades, and make decisions that shape your company's future. Every system you build compounds over time. Every shortcut creates problems later. That's not a game mechanic — that's just how startups work. No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy meters. One price, everything unlocked through play. BUILD YOUR BUSINESS EMPIRE Start with a landing page and a dream. Grow into an enterprise-grade SaaS company worth acquiring. • Bootstrap your first users, revenue, and product • Upgrade 20+ buildings across Bootstrap, Growth, Scale and Enterprise • Research real growth levers like SEO, Analytics, PMF, Email, Onboarding, Freemium, Pricing, and Retention • Push toward exit with systems like Data Warehouse, Investor Relations, and Enterprise Suite REAL DECISIONS. REAL CONSEQUENCES. Production incidents. Compliance requests. Weak pipeline. Technical debt piling up. WHAT'S INCLUDED • Four stages: Bootstrap, Growth, Scale and Enterprise • 43 milestones from First Dollar to First Exit • 20+ upgradeable buildings across your startup campus • Research tree with Foundation, Growth, Scale and Exit capabilities • Real-time idle progression • Random founder events with trade-offs • Technical Debt, Brand, Pipeline, and System Health systems • Boardroom flow for strategic decisions • Full offline play — no connection required No premium currency. No ads interrupting your startup. Build your company. Survive the chaos. Earn your exit.

You just took over Apex Motors, a franchise store that the last GM left bleeding. You have $120,000, thirty-eight cars, a service department that can't carry the building, and a rival across the highway that wants your best closer. Run every department like a real one: • THE FLOOR — hire from real résumés with traits that matter, turn dead deals over to the desk, work the be-back list, set objectives, run Saturday meetings and contests, pick from five pay plans, and take the big pencil yourself. • THE SHOP — a flat-rate catalog of real repairs with book times, a tech ladder from lube rack to shop foreman, an express lane, loaners, a tire program, a wholesale counter, EV tooling, a body shop, and service contracts that come back as repair orders. • THE BOOKS — deals that fund through contracts in transit, factory schedules, a twelve-item month-end close, budgets, used-car water, a controller, a bank that renews your line once a year, and owners who expect a distribution. • THE MARKET — new and used lines that age differently, a book value that drifts weekly, interest rates and gas prices that move the whole county. • THE 20 GROUP — a peer composite with sixteen KPIs, the guide set by the top half of stores like yours, and a monthly action plan you're held to. • THE EMPIRE — buy the corner lot, the buy-here-pay-here, two franchise points, and finally Crestline itself. Ask Diesel, the old-timer who wanders your lot, anything about the business. Take on a twelve-scenario campaign with stars: the embezzler, the flood, the recall, the audit, the rust-belt turnaround, the empire. Learn the trade at Dealer University. Climb from Sales Manager to Dealer Principal, sell the group, and start again with a perk. Fifty-two achievements, three leaderboards, controller support, and a sandbox where nothing can go wrong.