Buford

What it is: A personal website and portfolio for Buford Taylor — engineer, founder, and science fiction author (writing as Leonard Buford). The site aggregates his track record of 17 companies since 2007 (1 IPO at Eventbrite, 1 acquisition at Reforge, 3 active companies, 9 shut downs), his published Nouscraft LitRPG trilogy (10,000+ copies sold, 4.5 stars average on Amazon/Goodreads), two books in progress (Sol Truckers and the autobiography Buford versus Oklahoma), and a collection of essays on hiring, fundraising, and building companies. Who it's for: readers of his fiction, people interested in his career record and startup lessons, and potential followers of his active ventures — Casting Call Club, Closing Credits, and Shosay. Why it stands out: it is unusually candid — he lists every failure alongside the wins (9 shut-down companies), discloses a past felony and homelessness, and states an explicit no-AI-in-the-prose / all-AI-in-the-code policy.