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✍️ Essay
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Why we picked it A veteran founder and investor argues that pure 50/50 decision making causes gridlock, and that someone needs the final say in each domain. It supports the balance your short answer strikes: the developer owns how it is built, but each area of the company has one accountable owner. Read it to get comfortable that giving your engineer the call on implementation is a structure, not a surrender.

The Myth of Equal Startup Co-Founders

From Startup Hacks (Alex Iskold) by Alex Iskold 9 min read

  • Equal say on everything leads to deadlock, so assign clear ownership by domain.
  • One accountable owner per area speeds decisions and makes results traceable.
  • Splitting authority is not about hierarchy, it is about keeping the company moving.
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Answers When my technical hire and I disagree on the tech stack, whose call is it?
📄 Article
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Why we picked it Iskold reduces market size to a single honest formula, number of customers times revenue per customer, and warns against padding decks with irrelevant giant TAM figures. It is a fast way to force both cofounders onto the same bottom-up basis, so you are comparing the same two or three inputs rather than talking past each other. Practical, opinionated, and short enough to read together in one sitting.

Everything You Need to Know About Market Sizing

From Startup Hacks (Alex Iskold) by Alex Iskold 12 min read

  • Market size equals number of customers times revenue per customer
  • Build it bottom-up rather than borrowing a huge industry figure
  • Disagreements collapse onto a few shared inputs once the formula is explicit
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Answers Two of us disagree on how big the opportunity is. How do we resolve a market-size argument between cofounders?
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