… 5. You are a code commit and problem-solving junkie. Because you will OWN product development in the early days. I want to see your 100 lines of code per day, your daily problem-solving on GitHub, or your 100 weekly commits pushing our product forward, asking for feedback, iterating on the platform, or preparing for our beta.
Original discussionYou won't find a technical co-founder312 source comments · at importIf you want me as a technical cofounder, you are going to tick most of these boxes: 1. You have at least 8-10 years of experience in that domain with some of it in a leadership position (ie product manager) 2. You already have a huge following or audience. Especially important if this is a SaaS product or b2c. Not as important if this is hard tech (ie biotech). But if you’re doing a HR startup, show me your 10,000 engaged HR followers on LinkedIn. If you’re doing a martech startup, show me your Substack with 10k marketing subscribers. 3. You already have talked to at least 25 people about this, and gotten feedback about their pain points, initial reaction to your solution, etc. These conversations are documented and easily shared with me 4. You preferably have at least 1 successful exit/company under your belt, or a couple of failed ones is OK too (but I would need references to make sur…
Full originalBring your own experience to the conversation.
I know you think you're making a point here but you aren't. Half your list is sensible table stakes for a technical co-founder especially the technical and leadership experience. A serious business-side founder shouldn't team up with a green technical co-founder; they'd be better off finding a contractor to build their specific idea. But #3 and #5 on your list are dumb. Their equivalents for the "ideas" co-founder were about validating that specific business idea and problem. Whereas you're just trying to score cheap points.
Full originalThe thing is, there aren't a bunch of technical people going around looking for a "business guy". A business guy should pull out his supply demand chart and see where the intersection is... the price is going to be low for the business guy.
Full originalTotally reasonable demands and I mostly tick all of them off: 1) yup 2) yup 3) mostly reasonable but weirdly written 4) they didn't make it, but yes 5) 100%. And since I fulfill most of those requirements I have the same demands on non-tecchnical cofounders. I honestly do not think they are that high.
Full originalI check those, and I don't consider myself special at all. There must be half a million technical people out there checking those boxes.
Full originalWhat is your monthly contribution level to open source software projects? Are you able to prove theorems relevant to solving business problems? Give me an example. Do you have good ideas for improving the accuracy of geometric reverse engineering pipelines? Can you mathematically design optimal pricing strategies? The technical challenges we face are too great to solve on my own. I need a second technical founder.
Full originalRespect different perspectives. Share concrete experiences.
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