Just to add, you have to like them. Same as marriage. Genuinely like them for the person they are and like spending way too much time with them. It can't be transactional.
This is why SF is a hard place to find a cofounder. There's so many networking events, meetups, matching programs, accelerators. But everyone knows in SF, relationships are transactional. A lot of this manifests as 2 people just parroting language that they read online at each other or doing stupid cofounder matching quizzes. As if that helps you figure out if you have a meaningful connection with that person.
Jobs aren't personal but starting businesses are. Do it with someone that is a good friend.
This also implies that you can't force a business partnership which I think is completely incompatible with how SF works.
Source - I live in the suburbs of SF to avoid actual SF.
Right and who do you tell about your idea, they might steal it. So do you agree to non-disclosure-statements with any potential partners? You can't just "try it" like you can with a sex-partner :-)
This is why SF is a hard place to find a cofounder. There's so many networking events, meetups, matching programs, accelerators. But everyone knows in SF, relationships are transactional. A lot of this manifests as 2 people just parroting language that they read online at each other or doing stupid cofounder matching quizzes. As if that helps you figure out if you have a meaningful connection with that person.
Jobs aren't personal but starting businesses are. Do it with someone that is a good friend.
This also implies that you can't force a business partnership which I think is completely incompatible with how SF works.
Source - I live in the suburbs of SF to avoid actual SF.