Startups Anonymous Est. 2013 · Read-only archive
Questions

Any asymmetric founder-couples? (one experienced, one new)

We have the weird situation where I’m a 6-time startup guy (3 IPOs) but it’s my cofounder’s first time and she’s my fiancee and chief revenue officer.  Basically, she makes the money and I spend it to grow faster.  I’m the geek, she’s the domain expert.

Anybody else like this?

 

 

7 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Sep 11, 2014

3 IPOs? You must have plenty of $$ in the bank. Why the weird situation when it doesn't matter if the startup fails or not?

AAnonymous· Sep 11, 2014

(yawn)

AAnonymous· Sep 22, 2014

+1

AAnonymous· Sep 12, 2014

There's gotta be a teaching moment here somewhere?

AAnonymous· Sep 12, 2014

3 IPOs? I smell bullshit.

AAnonymous· Sep 12, 2014

liar liar pants on fire

AAnonymous· Sep 12, 2014

Re IPOs, I got lucky in the early 90s and then the late 90s, everything IPOd. I did pretty well, not Mark Cuban: I wasn't the founder and didn't always get out in time. I bought some real estate and have rental income, pretty middle class, eat at the same taco truck etc.

Anyway this is off topic... I was asking about the assymetry...