What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder
There are two points to this attribute. The first is the ability for your cofounder to be able to not flake out and keep to their actual deadline. This comes from having previously built things and understanding how longs it actually takes to finish something. It also comes from straight up work ethic and dedication. The second point is your cofounder’s ability to have a strict cutoff for features to implement and what to “refactor”. A good technical cofounder will be able to say no to many things and put a hard stop on adding features in order to meet a deadline. Even if a technical cofounder has the ability to finish on time, they may not be estimating what’s realistic due to their inability to say no + leave things be. Taking twice as long was not due to their lack of work ethic, but the fact that they added too many things causing it to take twice as long. Many of these ideas may have even been the business cofounder’s ideas. A great technical cofounder will have the ability to tell their business cofounder no for the sake of meeting a deadline.

