Dear YC
My best friend and I started and ran a club in college and it was a resounding success. Our skills complement each other and we are both very motivated and entrepreneurial, each launching their own projects.
However, our underlying friendship suffers when we disagree about the company's products and solutions, as we are both very stubborn and stubborn. In college, this led to a lot of painful compromises, but the result was a fantastic club that truly reflected our strengths. But he also temporarily destroyed our friendship.
Today we are on good terms again and our friendship is stronger than ever and we want to start a startup together. We think we are going to be fantastic co-founders and we have a lot of ideas. But I'm worried about the consequences.
How do you manage to be best friends and co-founders? How to separate the personal from the professional? We find that we are not very good at it.
- Best regards, Almost Founder.
This is a great question. At my first company, we definitely had this problem and it took many years to find a solution. In fact - I'm not sure we found it. It was only after working on the second startup that I understood the answer.
You need to share responsibilities. You must agree in advance which areas of the company you will work on and which areas your friend / co-founder will work on. Most importantly, you should be comfortable when that person has the final say in these areas. More difficult, you need to be comfortable with this person deciding how these tasks will be accomplished.
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