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Ask YC: How important is it to be friends with your co-founder?
At least twice I've had the opportunity to co-found a startup with someone whom I've respected, who I know does good work, and has complementary skills. But I chose not to, because of some other aspect of their personality. Something bothered me about them, but I couldn't put my finger on it. It definitely seemed like at some level we didn't like something about the other, and we weren't the...
What do you do when you have a great potential co-founder, but don't like their idea?
I have friends who are smart and talented and would make good potential co-founders. And they want to work together. But often the idea they want to work on isn't right. Either:1) I feel they're thinking too small. They're incredibly talented people, but they want to pursue what I think is a really small market, and could be doing something more worthy of them.2) We have different opinions...