You know a lot of "co-founders" weren't really co-founders but really good first employees of the founder. You don't need a co-founder and sometimes, you just

You know a lot of "co-founders" weren't really co-founders but really good first employees of the founder. You don't need a co-founder and sometimes, you just need to start a company w/o one or have no company at all. Take Apple for example. Steve Jobs was the founder who completely ran the company. Steve Woz was a really great employee who helped make Job's vision a reality. Yes, they were "technically" co-founders but they aren't at the same time. Not to say Woz wasn't important - he was very important - however, I think Apple could have been created without him. In a way, I would say Mike Markkula was more of a co-founder than Woz was and he was brought in after the company was founded but that's going into a whole different world. I suppose the lesson on this is, you might find that "co-founder" your looking for after you created the company. Now for opposite end of the spectrum, try Larry Page and Sergey Brin. From what I've seen, they equally contributed and created Google and the company would have never been created without them. If one or the other disappeared, Google would have not been Google.