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Ask everyone you know for a technical co-founder; work together a few weeks first

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What they did

Non-technical founder reached out to everyone he knew, used Y Combinator co-founder matching, and got a list of tech profiles from a contact at an accelerator; met Clément from that list and worked together for a few weeks as a test before committing.

In their words

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… was the right? How did you guys meet? And how did you know he was the right person to pursue this with? Yeah, it's definitely one of the hardest things during this whole adventure. Basically, I was alone trying to do the app. So I was, you know, figgling stuff on Figma. It was really horrible. And I was like, all right, I'm going to do a tech product. I need a tech co-founder as simple as this. And I started outreaching to everyone I knew.

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I was, you know, there is like Y Combinator matching. That's a platform where you can DM people that actually want to be co-founder as well. I started doing as most outreach as I could. And eventually it came down to someone I knew from some sort of accelerator. He had, in his accelerator, he saw, of course, a lot of tech profiles. He sent me a few. And in this list was Clement. We connected. He wanted to build in the consumer export area.

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I was like, all right, man, we have to work together. There's not going to be another opportunity for this. We started working together on the 6th of October. I remember it was a Friday. And yeah, we just started working. We tested ourselves by working together for a few weeks. Then we felt like it was going good. So we just kept on going. And that's how we've done it. I like it. Did you guys say, hey, let's work on this aspect of the project together? obviously this is your idea this is your passion you're bringing them on was there any type of like

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talk about like how you're splitting it i mean and don't answer if you don't feel comfortable doing it but like talk to me about like how you took it small like what was the project that you guys were currently working on when you mean splitting it you mean in terms of uh what do you mean like well what was the the the company like is it 50 50 60 40 type of thing like did you have any problems talk about that and don't share that if you don't …

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