How to Start a Company With Someone You’ve Never Met
The story of a founder and co-founder who met remotely and ended up launching a startup
Starting a business with someone is always an arduous process. There are contracts. There are differences in personal values and backgrounds. There are questions of trust, personality clashes, and sacrifices that have to be made.
But starting a business with someone you’ve never actually shaken hands with changes the game completely.
Given our virtually unlimited ability to meet people around the world in today’s global and tech-powered economy, it’s becoming less and less uncommon that two people in two different countries can come together and launch a business together.
Launching a business is different from remote hiring and contracting, which we know is a growing trend. See, employment is de-risked. The employer is stable and established (we hope). The employee or contractor receives a paycheck and/or benefits. Remote workers do a regular job, remotely.
Entrepreneurship has all the risk, with more unknowns, more pressure, and more work, and less pay, if any, at the start. And benefits? What are those?
Add in the dynamic of being fully remote and entrepreneurship can be uniquely…
