Technical Co Founder

“And I think that's a new and interesting divide where before we were like, I need a technical co-founder and that's not really it anymore because everyone can code. I think it's about your set of sensitivities and desire to make something new and go fast versu…”

“If you're not an engineer, I don't think you can do this, and I think you should really focus your time on trying to find a great technical co-founder to start the company with.”

“The best business founders Recruit amazing technical co-founders. And that is how they distinguish themselves. That is the number one distinction. So it's not what's on your resume, where you worked, the fact that you were some fancy executive, that you're tal…”

“I couldn't find tech and co-founder, so I just moved to the next challenge. I hired some engineers, or I got a dev shop, and, like, nothing will keep me Well, hold me back. And what's so sad about that way of thinking about it is that like, one, the percentage…”

“Basically folks put up the barriers. To negotiate against themselves. Right out of the gate.”

“The reason you want to have a technical co-founder and not a hired engineer or not a hired contracting team is because so many of the decisions you're going to make are technical and so many of the iterations you're going to make relies on engineering.”

“Getting a technical co-founder was the smartest thing that I never did. And it ended up being the best decision that I made.”

“Is this app complicated and is going to need 24 seven support and it has a lot of moving parts and it's going to be hard to scale and there's going to be performance stuff and there's a lot of things moving around. I think of like an analytics app or like, you…”

“There's a pretty big shift that happens once you start gaining traction, where it's less about building a product for a market and finding that fit, and it shifts more into turn, like, building an organization, a company and a system, like this system of human…”

“We've funded so many people that are self-taught, you know, developers and engineers. And I think that's super impressive. That's like potentially just seeing that you had, you know, The will and gumption to like go out there and learn and build yourself is, i…”

“If you're working in a more high-tech consumer, or if you're working on things that really require that extra software to back everything through, you're gonna need a technical co-founder, but with, like, something of e-commerce, you know, it's almost negligen…”

“Let's say you're a technical co-founder, you know a lot about the space you're tackling from a technical standpoint, but you've never run revenue before, you've never managed a sales team before or you need help on the commercial side. Well, you probably want …”

“There's no shortage of entrepreneurs in Australia, but there's a real shortage of technical co-founders.”