【伸びる起業家を一瞬で見抜く方法とは？】成功する経営者に共通する1ヶ月の思考法 #スタートアップ #起業 #起業の科学

Masayuki Tadokoro of Unicorn Farm shares a single interview question he uses to instantly evaluate whether an entrepreneur will succeed.

• Tadokoro’s screening question: ‘What results will you achieve in the next month, and what will you prioritize to get there?’
• The question tests four things simultaneously: clarity of success metrics, time-axis thinking, outcome-action causality, and prioritization ability.
• Speed and fluency of the answer signals whether the founder has already internalized their key actions — hesitation reveals the opposite.
• Akiyama, CEO of Basic Inc. (pre-IPO, ~¥2B revenue), tracks 12-month KPIs broken into monthly targets, focusing on revenue per employee and ARR to improve operating leverage.
• Tadokoro cites Rule of 40: the best IPO candidates grow revenue while reducing headcount, maximizing operating profit margin.
• A second unnamed pre-IPO founder Tadokoro holds equity in had fully quantified 12-month targets — growth rate, operating margin, user growth — and answered every question without hesitation.
• One-month framing is deliberate: short enough to force real prioritization, long enough to compound meaningfully over 12 months toward IPO metrics.

2026-01-14 · Watch on YouTube