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Why do you guys insist on a cofounder. Harj, you of all people should know that alot of the coding work can be outsourced. A visionary sometimes doesnt like hav
by p6 17y ago
Why do you guys insist on a cofounder. Harj, you of all people should know that alot of the coding work can be outsourced. A visionary sometimes doesnt like having an equal to deal with.
- davidw 17y agoThey do not insist on it: they have funded a few single founders. It's just a model they see works well, so, all other things being equal, they go for it.
- p6 17y agoDude you potentially miss a lot of opportunities when you filter on the basis of having a cofounder. PG claims a startup is too much work for one person. duh. Thats why you hire employees. And things are never all else equal.
- davidw 17y agoWell, it's their money, they do as they see fit. If some other, similar seed-funding group accepts lots of single founders and does better than YC, maybe they'll change. It's not just them saying this, though. I really wish I had someone to work with myself; it would help things a lot.
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- Harj 17y agowell we fund single founders, the bar is just higher. and since the bar with a co-founder is already high, that becomes a very high bar. and yes you can outsource development but boy were we infinitely more productive once we had a tech co-founder and i started doing front end dev.