Why it dies

This isn't a startup, it's a $10M+ TV production dressed as one, and every load-bearing assumption is someone else's yes. You need a network or streamer to greenlight it, a legal team to survive incorporating real companies with real equity on camera (securities law does not care how good your twelve-metre wall looks), insurance for 28 people you're making sleep on a floor, and 60 days of shooting with no revenue until someone buys the format. The concept is genuinely clever — cap table as scoreboard is a real hook — but cleverness of format is exactly the thing that gets cloned by a studio with an actual production deal the week after they pass on you. There's no first customer, no wedge, no reason it's you making this instead of Endemol, and no revenue path that doesn't start with begging a buyer who's already got Shark Tank printing money with zero legal exposure.

What would save it

Stop pitching a show and start pitching a format buyer. Prove demand cheaply: run a scrappy one-week micro-version, cut a sizzle reel, and get a single production company or streamer to option it — that de-risks the entire fantasy. Better yet, flip the model: the durable asset isn't the show, it's the accelerator + media flywheel underneath it. If real companies actually get built and funded, you own equity and a content engine, not a one-season gamble. Sell that, not the drama.