When to Quit: Founder Opportunity Cost
March 12, 2025
You have to be incredibly resilient to build a company from idea to IPO. Almost everyone who has made it will tell you there were many times when their company almost shut down.
Today we’re talking about how to find a co-founder.
This is a really hard problem to solve, and the right person is unlikely to fall from the sky. Expect to put in lots of effort to make this happen.
Don’t be precious — explore all the networking opportunities you have: local, industrial, alumni, etc. There’s also tools like Y-Combinator’s co-founder matching system and even accelerator programs dedicated to solving the problem like Entrepreneur First.
The more progress you make on the business, the more attractive the co-founder role will become to an excellent candidate. So keep building!
Best of luck out there.
