None of the things you describe require multiple "founders". I'm a solo founder, and have 10+ people who have equity in my company, that I can talk to about an

None of the things you describe require multiple "founders". I'm a solo founder, and have 10+ people who have equity in my company, that I can talk to about any of the things you described above (and do). I'm still just the one founder though. Do people not talk to employees? I don't get it. Apparently, there's a belief that you can only bounce ideas off of other "founders" around here. In my experience, that's completely false. I also, BTW, bounce ideas off of other business owners, friends, relatives, people on the Internet I've never met, etc. Being a "solo founder" hasn't prevented any of that. And I'm an introvert!