Did you know co-founder conflict kills 65% of startups? Join co-founder relationship expert, Annie Garofalo, as she interviews high performing founding teams on the pivotal, often overlooked moments of choosing co-founders, building trust, and navigating conflicts. In each episode, you’ll be in the room as co-founders reflect on their most intimate moments as a team – from toughest team conversations, communication breakdowns, and decision making best practices. How I Met My Co-Founder is a ...
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Ep 1.9 • AMA: Couples Therapy for Co-Founders | Guest Host, Crystelle Desnoyer
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Ask Me Anything: Couples Therapy for Co-Founders — Former Techstars Chief of Staff, Crystelle Desnoyer, interviewing Co-Founder Relationship Expert, Annie Garofalo In this bonus episode of 'How I Met My Co-Founder,' guest host Crystelle Desnoyer, former Chief of Staff to the CEO of Techstars, switches roles to interview show host Annie Garofalo abo…
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Ep 1.8 • Professor-Student Duo Takes on AI | Interview with Voxel51
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This week’s episode brings professor-student duo from University of Michigan, Brian Moore (CEO) and Prof. Jason Corso (CSO), co-founders of Voxel51, an open source toolkit to enable better data and better models. They discuss transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship in AI, shedding the “faculty” and “student” roles, changing CEO titles earli…
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Ep 1.7 • From Big Tech @ Meta to Co-Founders | Interview with LastMile AI
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In our first live recording in New York City, guests Andrew Hoh and Sarmad Qadri, co-founders of LastMile AI, share their experiences transitioning from working at Meta to launching their own AI developer platform. They discuss the importance of trust and communication, comparing the co-founder relationship to marriage, emphasizing accountability, …
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Ep 1.6 • From Co-Founders to Life Partners | Interview with How to Change the World
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Meet married couple, Professor Jason Blackstock (CEO) and social entrepreneur Alana Heath (COO) who met as co-founders of the social enterprise How to Change the World. Spun out of University College London (UCL), their organization provides students and early career professionals with the skills and mindsets to build a greener, more equitable fu…
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Ep 1.5 • Three Nationalities, One Mission | Interview with Cohabit
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Vaish, Max, and Jed are co-founders of Sweden-based company Cohabit, a circular furniture rental startup born out of a graduate course in sustainability at Malmö University. The team is diverse in every way - culturally, geographically, and functionally. Vaish has nearly a decade of expertise leading teams in the non-profit sector in India, Jed bri…
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Ep 1.4 • Cybersecurity’s First Mother-Daughter Founding Team | Interview with Seccuri
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Listen now on Spotify / Apple / YouTube / Google. Brought to you by Confidante, preventing the co-founder conflicts that kill 65% of startups. Get podcast summaries and co-founder resources delivered to your inbox: www.confidante.substack.com Juanita Duque (CEO) and Olga Botero (CTO), co-founders of Seccuri, are the first mother-daughter co-founder…
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Ep 1.3 • Is Four Co-Founders Too Many? | Interview with Tonic.ai
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Listen now on Spotify / Apple / YouTube / Google. Brought to you by Confidante, preventing the co-founder conflicts that kill 65% of startups. Get podcast summaries and co-founder resources delivered to your inbox: www.confidante.substack.com Ian Coe, Karl Hanson, Andrew Colombi & Adam Kamor are co-founders of Tonic.ai. Meet Ian, Karl, Andrew, and …
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Ep 1.2 • Buying a Company with Your Spouse | Patricia & Enrico: The First Search Fund Couple
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Listen now on Spotify / Apple / YouTube / Google / Pod Website. Meet us in person at MIT's 8th Annual ETA Conference Feb. 15th, Get Tickets Here Patricia Riopel & Enrico Magnani made waves in 2017 as the first search fund couple! Post-business school, they found themselves in separate careers in separate continents with Enrico returni…
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Ep 1.1 • From Childhood Friends to Co-Founders | BuildBetter AI’s Spencer (CEO) & Nikhil (CTO)
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Brought to you by Confidante, preventing the co-founder conflicts that kill 65% of startups. Learn more at www.confidante.info. — Spencer Shulem, Nikhil Shinday, and Adam Stanford are co-founders of BuildBetter. After a decade working in and around startups, Spencer and Adam started BuildBetter in 2020. Soon after, Spencer brought in his childhood …
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