• Reference

YC 2021-13 How to Find a Technical Co-Founder

• Summary

In short, you cannot succeed without Technical Co-Founder, choose from friends at first and go to company with strong engineering culture if you don’t have such friend, and brainstorm the idea.

• Content

Plan A : If you know the Technical Co-founder candidate as a friend,

You should think of all the ways you can patch together an MVP with existing non-coder tools, launch and get some users.

Plan B : Follow these three rules

1. You first need to understand how important it is to have a technical co-founder.
2. Make a list of everyone you know from high school, college and workplace.
3. instead of struggling for two years, it might make more sense to spend some time in industry for two years and find your technical co-founder during this time. Make a firm offer. If you don’t have money for salary and/or that person has no outside commitments requiring salary, then propose 50/50 equity split.

→ Finally we Brainstorm ideas with that person so it evolves with the both of you.