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65% of startups fail due to (preventable!) co-founder conflict. Learn how to build a founding team for the long-term. Subscribe for tips delivered to your inbox weekly.
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Here’s a few quick facts to get us started:
“65% of high potential startups fail due to co-founder conflict” according to Harvard professor, Noam Wasserman. Listen to the How I Met My Co-Founder podcast to hear real teams tell the stories of how they met, built trust, and navigated conflict.
Ruinous co-founder conflicts can be prevented through intentional conversations across the team development cycle 1/ Forming: Co-Founder Search, 2/ Norming: Social Contracting, 3/ Storming: How to Fight, and 4/ Performing: Regular Relationship Check Ins. Learn more about how we work with teams.
Team Challenge: How well do you know your co-founders? Complete this quiz then forward to your co-founders to get your personalized team results. (Note: All co-founders need to complete the quiz for team results to be shared.)
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Meet Annie Garofalo, Founding Team Relationship Expert
Annie Garofalo, founder of Confidante, has been on a decade-long journey studying the art of founding team dynamics. Annie had an early glimpse into the significance of co-founder dynamics when she co-founded her first company with a close childhood friend. This pivotal experience fueled her to delve deeper into the research. At Stanford, she fused entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and relationship therapy through their joint MBA and Sociology MA program. Annie's professional experience weaves together roles as a former founder, investor, C-suite executive, team coach, and growth strategy consultant. She’s now taking the leap to share her findings and the stories of founding teams more broadly so all entrepreneurs can prevent ruinous co-founder conflict.
What is Confidante?
At Confidante, we actively study and support founding team relationships. With the awareness that 65% of companies falter due to co-founder issues, we've crafted preventative programs. Teaming up with leading investors and accelerators, we pioneer research and proactive solutions, strengthening the bedrock of startups—the co-founder relationship.
Discover more about our research, approach, and resources at: www.confidante.info
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We welcome you to participate in the comments section here, leave reviews or Q&A on Spotify, submit a suggestions for guests and topics at confidante.info/podcast or schedule time for a chat with me, Annie Garofalo, at tinyurl.com/chat-with-annie.
To learn more about the Confidante and how we work with founders and investors to pioneer research on founding team dynamics, visit Confidante.info.