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     💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist Apr 30
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    1/ The question I'm struggling with the most for my @ycombinator app is, "why are you a solo founder?" The honest answer is timing. I won't and don't want to be one, but the opportunity came up fast, and not making a horrible very long-term mistake means recruitment isn't.

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      2.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist Apr 30
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        2/ But the larger issue now is: what's the best way to do recruitment *at this moment*? Say I have need for a few different roles. Besides competence, I want to make sure I'm working with people I can work with *for a very long time*.

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        3/ How do you do that as quickly as possible but also in a way that doesn't create an artificial environment or one that excludes the best possible candidates?

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        4/ For example, I once collaborated with someone on a joint weekend project. The experience was really fun for us! Then we worked together on a brief professional contract. We did not work well together. It's a wildly different setting. We still get along but we both hated it.

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        5/ Alternatively, I'm not sure, "hey, let's do a trial period. I'll pay you to help me build this now, and if it works well, I'll make you a cofounder" has good selection pressures. As the recruited person, I'd feel like I'm in a precarious position that's ripe for exploitation.

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      6.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist Apr 30
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        6/ More than that, there's a lot of precarity going around now. Say I know a great Google engineer that I'd ask to be a cofounder — now seems like precisely the moment where they'd say, "no thank you," even if they would have said, "YES PLEASE!" six months ago.

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      7.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist Apr 30
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        7/ If I don't get into YC, I know the solo issue is going to be what sinks me. Teams are critical, and formation/recruitment may be much more difficult now than it usually is. So I'd like to hear strategies people know of, especially if they used them in "war time" before.

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      8.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist Apr 30
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        P.S. To the people who have reached out to me and those I've reached out to recently, this in no way discounts our ongoing conversations.

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      2. Bitcoin Internet  👻 money‏ @niftynei Apr 30
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        what if you just crushed it without YC

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        Replying to @niftynei

        I can limp along with no pay burning my savings for a while longer. I can't pay anyone else though. And, I think the nature of what I'm trying to do plus timing exigency means I do need YC or someone like them as accelerant.

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        Wooh, lots of thoughts...Cofounding is a marriage. It takes time to build that relationship. So, ask people you already know or start dating by asking your friends if they know anyone who is single.

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        In the short run, YC can be a good place to meet potential co-founders and finding co-founders should be part of your work plan if you get in.

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