TestFit Co-Founder and CEO Clifton Harness [Photo: LinkedIn]

Clifton Harness
Co-Founder and CEO
TestFit
.…offering “8 things about founders” via LinkedIn.

Eight years after his first day at TestFit—a Dallas-based real estate development feasibility platform that’s helped clients speed up site planning by as much as 10 times—Harness took to LinkedIn to share “8 things about founders.” His insights include “We will work 80 hours a week for fun”; “We will not accept defeat, even at a 97% casualty rate”; and “Motivation is our own. No carrot. No stick. Just manic intent.”

TestFit’s co-founders, including CTO Ryan Griege, displayed their own manic intent in 2022 when they landed a $20 million Series A round with San Francisco’s Prologis, a global real estate logistics leader, as one of their investors. Then they made Prologis one of their key clients by deploying TestFit’s real-time AI platform to help the company better judge the feasibility of new warehouse sites.

In 2023, TestFit snagged Startup of the Year honors at the Venture Dallas Summit. And last summer, the company launched a new tool called Generative Design, which allows AI to test site solutions “on its own,” based on specific project requirements.

All that action confirms one of Harness’s other insights on founders: “We will never stop (what else would we do?).”

Check out all 8 of his insights—and comments from fellow entrepreneurs—in his LinkedIn post.

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