CHAPTER 7
Navigating co-founder relationships.
The relationship will outlast most decisions you make this year. The conversations you don't have compound the same way the ones you do.
PROMPT ONE
When was the last time you and your co-founder had an honest conversation about how you're both doing — not about the business, but about each other?
PROMPT TWO
What's a piece of resentment you've been carrying about your co-founder that you've never put into words — and what's the cost of continuing to carry it silently?
PROMPT THREE
What's a conversation you've been postponing with your co-founder because the timing never feels right — and is the timing ever going to feel right?
PROMPT FOUR
If you imagined the version of your co-founder relationship you'd want to have in five years — direct, trusting, generative — what's the smallest deliberate practice you could start this month to begin building it?
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