Your Co-Founder Relationship

Assess its health and design your future

Please find here the supporting notes from my recent talk at London Tech Week. With great thanks to EQL:HER

Recommendations from other Co-Founders

  • Dedicate regular time to ‘how are we getting on’ to prevent molehills becoming mountains, don’t let stuff pile up

  • Spot tough comments, deafening silence, tone and address them fast with curiosity not conflict

  • Don’t pass bad vibes to the team

  • Run 360 feedback on each other regularly

  • Do talk about life outside work, it’s deeply connected to life within work for any Founder

  • Top 50 Co-Founder Questions list from Gloria Lin and First Round Capital is great to dip into for an ‘us’ agenda

  • Use humour and unique language to label to depower tricky issues as you bring them up

Suggested ‘Working on us’ Structure

  • 1. What are your major highs and lows outside work at the mo?

  • 2. How’re you feeling about work? What’s contributing? How can I help?

  • 3. What’s working well between us, and why?

  • 4. What’s working less well between us, and why?

  • 5. What’s changing at the moment, how will we support each other?