@anxo_armada yeah sounds really extreme at first but I'm diving deeper these days to explore more of it and have better understanding. I think I'll definitely go for it.
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just did it... super helpful... DM me if you'd like a referral
@vineet_sinha how did you do it? Did you and your co-founder go to a "shrink" like couples do?
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@lussvontrier kinda? We had a sr advisor who's referred by our accelerator mediate a few sessions... she does it professionally so the process was top notch
I did this for hundreds of cofounder pairings for nearly 4 years while working at Entrepreneur First, and continue doing so privately. It's transformative - best book to read on the topic: Fierce Conversations.
Also a great article by Esther Perel on the First Round blog: https://firstround.com/review/ho...
If anyone wants to chat more about it, I'm @zefi on twitter.
@zefi Hi Zefi. You did this means you conducted therapy for founders or you participated/went to therapy with a co-founder? Do tell me more. I'm really excited about this topic
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I think that is an excellent idea...like any relationship, a partnership is never easy and it takes experience to know when to give and take.
Who would you recommend? I was recently discussing this with my personal coach on one of our weekly calls. I've had 3 partners in past businesses and now I'm in the process of starting another venture with a new partner.
In each of the past I could see where having an outside party (non-board member) to conversate with together, could only create more synergy.
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@mikekawula Hi Michael, DM me if you'd like a referral.
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@mikekawula Hi Michael, I would recommend using these twenty questions as a starting point for your conversation with the new partner. See where there is alignment as well as disagreement: bit.ly/questionsforfounders.
If you want help navigating the conversations and setting up the people side of the partnership, DM me. That's a service I offer.
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I really love this idea since so many of our challenges are related to identity and how we value ourselves.
I founded 7CTOs exactly for this kind of thing aimed at people in the roles of CTO or technical leadership. We form cohorts of 7 and help each other grow in emotional intelligence, technical leadership and communication/presentation skills.
I never heard of this but it's such a brilliant idea 😆but not every couple needs a therapy. I would guess that it's only applicable in case of some sort of conflict. At my company the co-founders are an actual married couple in real life. They are a good match and they openly and timely share feedback with each other so they never needed something like this ;)
@agatakristo absolutely i agree that not every couple needs a therapy but I've recently come to the conclusion that it will definitely not heart. Even if everything is ok I'd like to have this activity with my romantic partner and I started thinking that for founders it'll be cool too to see their dynamics through the lense of another person.
Never heard of it before, but as long we are having more startups and even more co-founders, it'll become a necessity. Not a chance YCombinator took a deeper look on the subject ✌️
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