Jared Friedman: The biggest bottleneck for corporate employees is co-founder timing
Jared Friedman · How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator · Jul 8, 2025 · at 33:59
Jared Friedman (Group Partner at Y Combinator) explains the difficulty of timing co-founder departures from corporate jobs.
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“And in my experience for people who are your age, who have like already graduated college or working at some company, that's the biggest limiting factor in practice for them actually doing a company is like they and their co-founder both need to be willing to quit their jobs and go in on a startup at the same time. It's just like a timing problem and like co-founders are hard to find and it's hard to make that timing line up. So my advice would be like, if you had, If you and your co-founder, if that does line up for you and you and your co-founder are both in a point in your life where you're like able to quit your jobs and go all in, you should probably just do it because it literally might not ever happen again.”
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