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The Founders’ Capstone.
Every pyramid scheme in history has failed for the same reason: the shape. Recruiters recruiting recruiters, each layer promised the proceeds of the one below, until the bottom runs out of people. The Greatest Game Company is a pyramid with the failing part left out. The base is the membership — real people paying the standing price for a real product. Above the base sits exactly one stone: the Capstone, the founders’ program. A founder buys the seat at the top and is paid 20% of every payment made by a member they send to the base — and paid nothing, ever, for recruiting recruiters. Bought standing at the top of a pyramid: that is the satire. A single-level referral program: that is the fact.
The terms of the scheme
- The door Lifetime founders only. The $599 seat — bought outright, or held as a gifted lifetime — is the one way into the Capstone. The program is a privilege of the seat, not a product for sale.
- The cut 20% of every payment a referred member makes, for as long as they remain. A referred lifetime seat pays a flat $99. The rate you join at is stamped on your referrals and never diluted afterward.
- The money Real transfers, quarterly, through Stripe — which handles identity, banking, and the tax paperwork. Credits mature 60 days after the payment that earned them (refunds must have their chance), then pay out each calendar quarter once the balance clears $20. Smaller balances roll forward; nothing is forfeited.
- The shape One level. The capstone rests directly on the base — no ranks between them, none above. Your recruits’ referrals pay your recruits, not you. No reward attaches to recruiting anyone — commissions derive from membership sales alone. That is the whole difference between this and the thing it is shaped like, and it is enforced in the ledger, not the copy.
Admission
Positions are not sold separately and never will be. The only door is the founder tier — $599, once, held for life, every surface included. The Capstone is the seat’s standing privilege.
Commissions are real money, so the boring parts are real too: the program is governed by the Terms (§13 — The Founders’ Capstone), and founders who promote the service must disclose their material connection plainly — an FTC requirement. One level. Exit at any time.
Your position
Reserved. The position is yours; the ledger is waiting. Claim it — Stripe collects identity and bank details, and the platform never sees either. Your link goes live the moment onboarding completes.
Half-claimed. Stripe still needs something — resume where it left off. Your link goes live the moment onboarding completes.
Active. Share the link; the ledger does the rest. Anyone who joins within 30 days of following it is yours — 20% of what they pay, a flat $99 if they take a lifetime seat.
Revoked. New referrals no longer credit. Credits already earned stand — they mature and pay on the ordinary schedule.
Your code is the name on the stone — lowercase letters, digits, hyphens, 3–20 characters. Change it as often as you like before you claim; it locks the moment your position activates.
Your code is minted, but the link is inert until the position activates.
The ledger
A credit is born when a referred payment lands, matures at 60 days (the refund window must die first), and pays in the first half of the month after each calendar quarter — once the matured balance clears $20. Beneath that it rolls forward.
Say you’re paid
When you promote the service — a post, a video, a group chat — state plainly, near the link, that you earn a commission. “I earn a commission from this link” is sufficient. This is a legal obligation (FTC), a condition of the position, and also simply true.
The program is governed by the Terms (§13 — The Founders’ Capstone). One level. Exit at any time.