Finding talented engineers as "mere employees" are hard enough; finding talented engineers suitable to be your co-founder(s) for a startup are even harder. It

Finding talented engineers as "mere employees" are hard enough; finding talented engineers suitable to be your co-founder(s) for a startup are even harder. It took me over a month of searching, interviewing, and painstaking gut instinct checking before I finally found two great guys to build my team. As losarime said, it's true, it's very hard to find those with passion for the job. My filtering statement/question that I came up with for the interviews: "I'm not looking for someone to work for this startup -- I'm looking for someone to work with this startup, someone who wants this to be our startup together." It was always very easy to see who genuinely wanted this to be our company together as opposed to those who just wanted a new employer.