Make sure someone has a final call in the company. You can even divide it out: person a has final call on product design, person b has final call on scaling is

Make sure someone has a final call in the company. You can even divide it out: person a has final call on product design, person b has final call on scaling issues,etc. Even if you have 50% equity each, designate it through voting shares or just a bylaw. A two person bureaucracy is a sure fire way to ensure things never get done as fast as they should. Joe Kraus' story in Founders at Work touched on this. I believe Vinod Khosla told him the best thing to do was break the equity up where someone had a final say (They all held equal shares before that).