Garg: Solo founders should crowdsource co-founder support from peer networks
Ooshma Garg · A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator · Sep 8, 2018 · at 46:31
Ooshma Garg, founder and CEO of meal-kit company Gobble, explains her mental model for managing the psychological demands of being a single founder.
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“In the early days, what I say for single founders is, you kind of have, like, if you're swimming in the ocean, it's kind of like a net buoy system, so you have to find, like, three or six people that are, like, those orange buoys, and you're swimming by yourself, and you're super, super tired, and when you want to rest, you, like, swim over to one of the buoys, and you hug it. And you, like, talk to them, and they help you. But then, since you don't have a co-founder, no one can be your rock, right? So next time you're, like, you know, need to rest, you swim over to another buoy, and you hug that, you know, and you kind of, like, you basically crowdsource your co-founder from other founders and friends”
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