Q change topics to the right way to work with non-technical co-founders. Um, and I think the topic that came up most commonly in the Startup School Forum was the one that Ralph alluded to, which is how to deal with deadlines and timeframes, particularly with non-technical co-founders. Um, and I, I think particularly in the, in the early days. So does anyone have thoughts on that? Any, any orders? Good.
A I'll volunteer for this since my, my technical, non-technical co-founder is staring at me over there. Um, a few, a few ideas here. If you've got someone that's really non-technical, and I'm not saying my co-founder is really non-technical. I'm sure she can use a computer. Um, but you know, if it's really non-technical, this is an amazing testing opportunity for you. I mean, I remember I would write this software and I'd be so happy about it and I'd hand it to her. And as soon as she touched it, it would break. I mean, I don't know what she did. She shook the iPad, she rotated it three times, but she had a way to break the stuff I wrote, and, um, that was amazing for testing in the beginning, so that's one way to engage your non-technical co-founder. Um, you eventually have to learn how to start pouting your deadlines. That's really hard to do. I never got very good at this. I'm always optimistic. Even to this day, I'm like, oh yeah, it's gonna take me a week. So I never really got good at this. I'm just aware that I'm Optimistic about it, and then I'm always kind of off by a week, and she's aware of that as well. Um, so eventually I've talked to other engineering leaders that keep two books. They keep, like, a separate set of books they talk to their technical co-founders, non-technical co-founders about. Say, okay, here's the deadlines here, and then you have another set of bo…
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