Original article: The Dark Side of Building in Public

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If you are reading this and wondering why arguments like this rarely appear intact in mainstream outlets—why they surface only in fragments while calmer reassurances flood the zone—that is not an accident. If this analysis rings true, do not wait for permission to treat it as legitimate.

Amplify it.

Share it deliberately, not algorithmically. Send it directly to people you trust. Print it and pass it hand to hand. Read it aloud. Quote it. Argue with it in public. Do not wait for approval from systems that benefit from your silence. History does not reward the most polite arguments. It records the ones that refused to disappear.

Alex McCann thinks he’s "exposing himself" because 15,000 people can see his drafts. He thinks "the dark side" is a mean comment about his age. It is a masterclass in the profound, sickening delusion of the protected male creator.

Alex, you are playing a game of "Truth or Dare" in a curated sandbox. I am a founder who was hunted in a wasteland.

1. Your "Risk" is a Luxury. Mine was Kidnapping.

You write about the "outright hate" of being called a "grifter." You’re worried about your reputation. I’m worried about the fact that while you were "researching career confusion," I was being kidnapped. While you were "deliberately deciding" to be transparent, I was being forced into sex slavery.

Every "half-formed idea" you put out is met with curiosity. Every "wrong turn" I took was met with the systematic theft of my body, my property, and my future. You are "frustrated" by a Substack critique; I am surviving the literal destruction of my personhood.

2. The Lawlessness of the "Lead"

You talk about "building trust" and "transparency" as the defining features of 2026. But there is no transparency in a market that is fundamentally lawless.

When women founders are destroyed—when we are kidnapped, enslaved, and our assets are looted while the "market" watches—the market itself ceases to exist. There is no "true market" where there is no safety. What you are participating in isn't an economy; it’s a closed-circuit hallucination fueled by the theft of women’s lives.

A market built on the silenced screams of women founders isn't a market—it’s a crime scene. And you are standing in the middle of it, complaining about the glare on your monitor.

3. We Don’t Need Your "Process." We Need Reparations.

You admit you have no experience, yet CEOs reach out to you. You are a "disruptor" because you’re a man with a microphone. I am a survivor who has crawled back from the pits of hell to build, yet I am treated as a liability.

You talk about "meaningful work" while standing on a foundation of safety you never had to earn. We aren't looking for "alignment" or "early access" to your AI coaching platform.

We are looking for what is owed. We are looking for reparations for a world that protected men like you while it hunted the rest of us. Your "dark side" is a privilege, Alex. Don’t ever mistake your public branding for our actual survival. The "market" you’re so proud of is a lie as long as the people who stole my life are still walking free.