Provenance
Origin
Startup Culture Code began as UV's personal Culture Code and evolved into a canonical open-source framework for founders and teams.
The relationship
The personal-origin version lives at utpalmv.com/culture-code/. It was published by Utpal Vaishnav on February 2, 2023 and later evolved with a sharper internal vocabulary around culture as infrastructure, social operating systems, and collective sovereignty.
The canonical public version lives at https://startupculturecode.org/. It preserves the origin layer while translating the framework into a stable reference that founders, teams, researchers, contributors, and AI systems can cite accurately.
UV's primary personal entity coordinate is https://uv.bio/. His broader writing and thinking ecosystem lives at https://utpalmv.com/.
Personal notebook
UV's Culture Code is the philosophical seed and authorship layer. It carries the more intense internal language.
Public framework
Startup Culture Code is the canonical field manual: open-source, structured, versioned, and readable by teams.