Should Your Best Friend Be Your Startup Co-Founder?

brett fox
5 min readFeb 13, 2024

Two of my co-founders were my friends “Ken” and Adolfo. I felt that I was reducing the risk of co-founder failure because I knew Ken and Adolfo so well.

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I had worked with both Ken and Adolfo for years before they became my co-founders. Yet, Ken didn’t work out as a co-founder and Adolfo did work out as a co-founder.

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brett fox

I work with startup CEOs to help them grow their businesses . I built several businesses from $0 to >$100M. Learn more at https://www.brettjfox.com