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How many other high-profile startups have survived a cofounder split like this? It doesn't seem disastrous, necessarily – Drodopbox probably would have happene
by sillysaurusx 6y ago
How many other high-profile startups have survived a cofounder split like this?
It doesn't seem disastrous, necessarily – Drodopbox probably would have happened with Drew, but not without Drew – but it's ... not exactly a happy thing.
It's hard to imagine Stripe without one of the Collisons, or OpenAI without gdb.
- gkoberger 6y agoI think it's a much smaller signaling risk, especially given how much time has passed and the number of founders (9 total, including Musk). The Paypal Mafia tends to structure their companies this way... a large, tiered system of founders and junior founders. This is more like losing an early team member than, for example, a Collison. (Also, it's ironic you cited OpenAI, since it did lose a founder... Musk)