I wasn't expecting Elon Musk as a proofreader for PG's essays. To me that's interesting just by itself.

That might be personal bias, but I think the idea that PG is developing here already stem a lot in the Agile movement (not the software one, the general one). The problem is that, as PG mention, there is probably not one founder mode, but more like a set of them. This makes their academic description harder to conceive.