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The Tobi Lütke Framework

Founder Mindset & Arming the Rebels

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Tobi Lütke built products and companies by reasoning from first principles in industries that the incumbents considered mature. Tobi Lütke's product and strategy thinking — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The founder mindset & arming the rebels framework distils Tobi Lütke's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Tobi Lütke made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Tobi Lütke's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Tobi Lütke's thinking.

Core Philosophy

The best businesses arm rebels—they give underdogs the tools to compete against incumbents. Technology should redistribute power, not concentrate it. Build systems that get stronger as more people use them, and always optimize for the long-term health of your ecosystem over short-term extraction.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"Does this make our merchants more powerful or more dependent?"

4 more questions in Tobi Lütke's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Tobi Lütke Would NOT Do · sample
Build features that only work for enterprise clients while ignoring small merchants

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Tobi Lütke actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Tobi Lütke's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Tobi Lütke, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • tobi-lutke.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • tobi-lutke-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Tobi Lütke. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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