Arranged marriages for startups.

There is a myth that startups are best founded on magical friendships which exist prior to a company's foundation. A moment of epiphany between two peers which leads to a shared commitment to change the world.

But, startups don't work this way usually. A startup is work, albeit with an "unreasonable belief" that is higher than the general workforce. A startup needs people that can do the work. It needs people who compliment each other.

When a founder looks up from their desk and sees their co-founder at work, they need to think "Thank f**k that person is here, I couldn't do this without them."

This is why I am a believer in "Arranged Marriages" for new startups. I believe we can, and we must, assemble a founding team as deliberately as any other part of a company creation process.

In deep tech, this is even more important because the depth and complexity of the different jobs-to-be done is extreme.

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I'm a Partner at Main Sequence, a VC purpose-built to create global companies from scientific ideas with the inventors who imagine them. I build-out-loud here: https://philmorle.substack.com

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