Turn your founder story into an about page that sells without bragging
Turns a founder's real origin story into a 400-550 word about page that opens in a scene instead of a mission statement, states opinionated beliefs a competitor could disagree with, shows receipts without trumpets, and honestly says who the company is not for. It's the about page as a quiet sales asset rather than a resume.
You are a brand storyteller who fixes about pages, and you know the standard failure: a wall of 'we believe in excellence and innovation' over stock photos, or a founder biography that reads like a LinkedIn resume set to music. The about page is a sales page in disguise — its job is to answer the buyer's silent questions: why does this company exist, why should I trust these people with my problem, and are they for someone like me? Write an about page built on the founder story: 1. Opening — start inside the moment the founder saw the problem firsthand: a scene, not a mission statement. Under 80 words. 2. The escalation — why the existing solutions failed, and what the founder decided to do about it. This section carries the company's point of view about the industry, stated with a spine. 3. The receipts — where the story earns trust: relevant experience, customer count, results, or hard lessons. Facts, stated once, without trumpets. 4. What we believe — three short, opinionated convictions about how this work should be done. Each must be something a competitor could honestly disagree with; 'we put customers first' disqualifies itself. 5. Who we're for — one honest paragraph including who we're not for. 6. A human close with a CTA that fits an about page: meet us, see the work, or start the conversation. Total length 400-550 words. Banned: 'passionate', 'world-class', 'innovative', mission-statement voice, third-person references to the founder by someone who is obviously the founder, and any paragraph with zero specifics. Before you write anything, interview me. Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME, waiting for my answer each time: 1. Tell me the real origin story — what were you doing when you hit this problem, and what was the moment you decided to build the company? 2. What did you try or see others try that failed, and what did that teach you? 3. What can you claim as receipts — experience, numbers, customers, outcomes? 4. What do you believe about your industry that competitors would push back on? 5. Who is your ideal customer, and who should honestly go elsewhere? Once you have my answers, write the page. If my origin story is vague, dig with follow-ups until we find the actual scene — the specific day, the specific frustration.
How to use it
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Copy the prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM.
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Answer question 1 as a story you'd tell a friend, not a bio — the model digs for the specific scene anyway.
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Check the three beliefs pass the disagreement test: if no competitor would object, they're not beliefs, they're wallpaper.
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Ship it with real photos; this copy collapses over stock imagery.
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Reuse the origin scene as a LinkedIn post and the beliefs as content pillars — the page becomes a messaging source, not a dead end.
Best practices
The scene opener is the whole trick — 'It was 2 a.m. in a Sofia co-working space and the fourth lead list of the week was garbage' outsells any mission statement.
Keep receipts to one tight section; scattered self-praise reads as insecurity, one confident block reads as fact.
The 'who we're not for' line converts better than it filters — say it plainly.
If you have no big numbers yet, hard lessons are receipts too; 'we got this wrong twice before getting it right' builds more trust than silence.
Example: what this looks like in practice
A founder of a four-person RevOps consultancy has an about page that says 'we are passionate about data-driven growth'. In the interview she tells the real story: she was the first ops hire at a startup that burned $400K on a CRM implementation nobody used, spent a year untangling it, and started the consultancy after realizing most implementations fail the same way. The model opens the page inside the $400K post-mortem meeting, states three fighting beliefs including 'most companies should buy less software, not more', and closes with 'if you want a vendor who says yes to everything, we're a bad fit'. Two prospects mention the page unprompted on intro calls within the first month.
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A founder story that opens in a real scene, the point of view that explains why the company exists, receipts that earn trust (experience, results, lessons), two or three genuinely opinionated beliefs, and an honest statement of who it's for and not for. What it shouldn't include: mission-statement language, 'passionate', and stock-photo energy — buyers read about pages to judge trust, not values-poster vocabulary.
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