A term used commonly in early stage startups.
An act of mass destruction and typically used by one of the founders, it refers a sudden and disruptive request that invalidates one or more
large sets of in progress
work that relied on previously assumed to be valid information prior to the request being
made.
"We had
already started the project, then Brian our CEO throws in a Founder
Grenade about an idea he had at the while at gym so we need to
throw all the work away and start from scratch again."