I am a bit curious how you guys did found your co-founder? College? Social media? Meetups?
The second question is: was it hard for you to convince him/her?
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#2Working together at a company 15 years ago. Friends since then.
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#3On OkCupid. Not even kidding.
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#4I started as an early employee and grew into a "co-founder".
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#5The best co-founder is someone you've already worked with and trust. Convincing should be pretty easy: you should both be excited about solving that one problem. If you are not brainstorming non-stop and messaging each other at all kinds of weird times, you don't have a co-founder.
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#6Worked at the same company. Watched his workflow, built tools to speed it up. Years later, started a company around the same concept. Sold to a bigger company and spend our time moving that forward. Hit it off right away and are like brothers now.
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#7Hired him as a temporary consultant with industry experience to help me build my startup. Things went well and at some point it became clear I had a cofounder.
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#8Hired him as a temporary consultant with industry experience to help me build my startup. Things went well and at some point it became clear I had a cofounder.
if you don't mind me asking, was that a remote consultant or on-site?
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#9Worked at the same company. Watched his workflow, built tools to speed it up. Years later, started a company around the same concept. Sold to a bigger company and spend our time moving that forward. Hit it off right away and are like brothers now.
very nice. what were you guys developing? were you working on similar "tools" until you started the company, or was it one off idea that you grew into a company years later?
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#10in 7th grade...