If you want to find a co-founder: - Join a startup with a lot of talented people. - Work really hard. - Notice who else works really hard / is talented. - Write their names down. - Become friends / build a relationship. - When you start a company, go recruit the top people from that list. This is more or less how I recruited Steven Schmatz to our current company. This works for recruiting more broadly as well. Every single great person you meet is a potential future collaborator in some capacity. - Even employee # 1 (Aasim Sani) for us was someone Steven already knew fairly well / had collaborated with previously. - Our cap table has dozens of angels from previous companies we worked at / people we worked with. etc. Recruiting co-founders and the early founding team is one of those topics that feels like a black box. Much of the discourse in startups overcomplicates it. The things that work are usually simple concepts to understand, but hard work to execute on. H/T Advik Kapoor for having us on his podcast to discuss this a few weeks back.
Charles Nolan
9 个月
The critical tool is an inspiring mission statement. What problem do you want to solve, who do you want to solve it for, and why is your solution better than what they are currently using? Greed does not motivation, but a passion to serve does.
Advik Kapoor
9 个月
you guys have epic team!
Program Management
9 个月Rasheed Reza is too expensive for me, right ? ??