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Co-Founder Expectations • James Tamplin

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The second most cited reason for startup failure, behind not finding product-market fit, is co-founder breakups.

The second most cited reason for startup failure, behind not finding product-market fit, is co-founder breakups. Mitigating product risk is a topic of major discussion in the startup community, and there are whole startups dedicated to onboarding non-founder employees. There is comparatively little about "on-boarding" your co-founder as a way to mitigate break-up risk. Andrew , my Firebase co-founder, and I were high school friends. We built a website together in French class, but never worked together on a major project - certainly nothing approaching the difficulty of founding a company. On

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