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I assume this is the top voted comment on HN since it's first. Sadly, there's not one qualifying statement in your comment which leads me to believe you don't
by pxlpshr 14y ago
I assume this is the top voted comment on HN since it's first.
Sadly, there's not one qualifying statement in your comment which leads me to believe you don't know what you're talking about. And that's fine, except you pretend like you do by rationalizing with yourself while trying to convenience others.
How about you first run a few businesses one your own. Then try one with a cofounder. In 10 years, please email me your thoughts. If you want to shorten that time, just go outside and talk to at least 10 founders who've done it.
- xyzzyz 14y agoYour comment is pretty dismissive, without any actual content, apart from "trust me, I'm older, I know better". Perhaps you could back it by some actual arguments in favour of your stance, just like the person you were replying to did?
- graycat 14y agoCan't do everything in life just by empirical patterns of actual experience from the past. Instead, need to think, look at how things work, find causes, reason, and plan. It's not about me. I should not use my resume as my primary evidence. But, yes, I've been in business, sometimes as a founder. As a founder, sometimes I made good money and sometimes not. Now I am a founder again and hope to 'go live' soon. And I have seen a lot of business founders over the years, some close and some distant, some with failures or with successes from small, medium, large, or extra large. I get my views partly from such observations. Just now in my work, I don't want a co-founder, and for essentially the reasons I gave: Dilute the direction and/or quality of the work, spend more money, and spend time in 'management'.