> This was a moment of honesty and vulnerability for him. To me this seems like good communication: stating exactly what your weaknesses are. I question why thi

> This was a moment of honesty and vulnerability for him. To me this seems like good communication: stating exactly what your weaknesses are. I question why this was not openly shared before. Either there's some deep rooted insecurities in the co-founder or the culture at the company just didn't allow to be vulnerable. That's more easily explained by the cofounder being a master of bullshitting and realizing that the chips are up. It's not a moment of honesty and vulnerability when you've sold yourself as someone who can do those things and lied by using designs made by someone else. Finding a good cofounder is similar to hiring and not treating the same way is what leads to this kind of issues. It's hard for someone who is new at it to properly vet the competence of someone random especially when it's in a field that person isn't an expert at